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 reports and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the top students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses the various significant present and unresolved concerns at the moment demanding 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 reduction 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 good fortune 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 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 response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage 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 due to the fact that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world each day, and the way it contributes on to U.