European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

The difficulty of coverage dynamics is a key one in coverage stories and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the major students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved concerns at the moment tough the self-discipline.

China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?

China's upward push at the foreign scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal development. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. consequently, the EU's total policy-making in the direction of Africa has suffered from a lack of credibility and this has been extra uncovered either by way of the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by means of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have got from African leaders.

Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations (New International Relations)

Diplomacy concept is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their assets in keeping with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, resourceful and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical thread that seeks to precise emancipatory ambitions for diplomacy.

America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)

"America's different military" brings the high-flying global of foreign international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has gone through a dramatic transformation considering September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.