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 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 a number of longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses a few of the significant present and unresolved concerns presently tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal 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 extra uncovered either by means of 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 components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to evaluate those theories and their resources in line 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 standard thread that seeks to specific 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 due to the fact September eleven, 2001. in the course of 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.