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 reports and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the top students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from a number of longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses a number of the significant latest and unresolved concerns at the moment hard 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 financial development. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. therefore, 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 good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and through 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 thought is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and examine those theories and their assets in response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, resourceful and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical thread that seeks to specific emancipatory ambitions 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 career that has gone through a dramatic transformation on the grounds that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.