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 reviews and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the prime students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses many of the significant latest and unresolved matters at present hard 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. for this reason, 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 by means of 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 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 keeping with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical 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 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 considering the fact that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the publication 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.