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 many of the major students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses many of the significant current and unresolved concerns at present hard 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 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 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 acquired 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 and evaluate those theories and their resources in response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion 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 career that has passed through a dramatic transformation considering the fact that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide each day, and the way it contributes on to U.