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 stories and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the major students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses the various significant latest and unresolved matters presently difficult the self-discipline.

China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?

China's upward thrust at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary progress. 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 additional uncovered either by way of 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 concept is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to evaluate those theories and their assets based on a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, innovative and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion a standard 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 overseas international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation on the grounds that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world each day, and the way it contributes on to U.