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 experiences and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly the various major students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal experiences of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved concerns at present difficult the self-discipline.

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

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

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

Diplomacy idea is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to evaluate those theories and their resources in keeping with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage 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 overseas international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation for the reason that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and world wide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.