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 examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the best students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal experiences of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses a few of the significant latest and unresolved matters at the moment tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. consequently, 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 via the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have bought from African leaders.

Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations (New International Relations)

Diplomacy idea 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 accordance with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a standard 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 global 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 given that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the booklet 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.