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 examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses many of the significant present and unresolved concerns presently demanding 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 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. for this reason, 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 through the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have got from African leaders.

Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations (New International Relations)

Diplomacy idea is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and examine those theories and their resources in response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion 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 overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation in view that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and world wide each day, and the way it contributes on to U.