European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

The problem of coverage dynamics is a key one in coverage reviews and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly the various top 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 publication assesses the various significant latest and unresolved concerns 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 monetary progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. hence, 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 obtained from African leaders.

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

Diplomacy concept is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their assets in response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage a typical thread that seeks to precise emancipatory objectives 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 overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation because September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe each day, and the way it contributes on to U.