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 learn. This edited quantity brings jointly the various major students within the box to envision 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 a few of the significant latest and unresolved concerns at the moment difficult the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the foreign scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal 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 additional uncovered either by way of the luck of China's investments in Africa, and via 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 concept 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 assets in line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion 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 international of overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation because September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yank diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world each day, and the way it contributes on to U.