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 especially amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly the various top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses the various significant present and unresolved matters presently tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary 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 this 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 through 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 thought 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 standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, resourceful and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a standard thread that seeks to precise 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 right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has gone through a dramatic transformation seeing that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank 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.