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 the various best students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses many of the significant present and unresolved concerns at present difficult the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the foreign scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential financial progress. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement reduction 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 good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and through 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 conception is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and examine those theories and their assets in response to a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, resourceful and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion 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 right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation on the grounds 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.