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 very amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the best students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal experiences of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses the various significant present and unresolved matters presently hard 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 biggest improvement relief 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 extra uncovered either through the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by way 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 idea is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their assets based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and interesting 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 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 given that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe each day, and the way it contributes on to U.