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 very amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the prime students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses many of the significant present and unresolved concerns at the moment tough 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 monetary development. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. accordingly, 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 means of the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way of 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 components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their assets based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, creative and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage a typical thread that seeks to precise emancipatory pursuits 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 occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation seeing that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.