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 very amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the major students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses many of the significant present and unresolved concerns at the moment hard 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 financial progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest 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 additional uncovered either through the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and through the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have obtained from African leaders.

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

Diplomacy conception is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to evaluate those theories and their assets in keeping with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and fascinating 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 international 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 the fact that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yank diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.