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 envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses the various significant latest and unresolved matters at the moment hard the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the foreign scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary development. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement reduction 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 additional uncovered either via the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way 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 parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and evaluate those theories and their resources in line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, creative and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical thread that seeks to precise emancipatory targets 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 global of overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation in view that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book 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.