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

The problem of coverage dynamics is a key one in coverage reviews and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved concerns presently tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the overseas scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary progress. the ecu 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 extra uncovered either through the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way 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 idea is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and examine those theories and their resources in line with 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 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 career that has gone through a dramatic transformation when you consider that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.