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 stories and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the major students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses a number of the significant present and unresolved matters at the moment not easy 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 financial development. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. therefore, 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 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 concept 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 based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage a typical thread that seeks to specific 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 gone through a dramatic transformation for the reason that September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book 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.