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 experiences and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly the various major students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from a number of longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses a few of the significant present and unresolved matters at present demanding 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 fiscal 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 extra uncovered either by means of the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and via the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have acquired 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 resources in response to a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, creative and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage 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 global of overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation for the reason that September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.