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 number of the major students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal experiences of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses many of the significant current and unresolved concerns at the moment difficult 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 progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement reduction 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 extra uncovered either through the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and via 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 conception 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 line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage a standard 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 career that has gone through a dramatic transformation on account that September eleven, 2001. during 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 each day, and the way it contributes on to U.