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 reviews and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the best students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses the various significant present and unresolved matters presently difficult 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 monetary development. the ecu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. for that reason, 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 through the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by means of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have acquired 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 examine those theories and their resources based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a standard thread that seeks to specific emancipatory targets 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 due to the fact September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe each day, and the way it contributes on to U.