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 experiences and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly the various best students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from a number of longitudinal experiences of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses the various 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 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. consequently, 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 means of 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 thought 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 based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally 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 right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has gone through a dramatic transformation considering that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yank diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.