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 study. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the best students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses the various significant latest and unresolved concerns presently not easy 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 fiscal progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. accordingly, 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 got 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 accordance with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally 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 foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation because September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yank diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.