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 reviews and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the top 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 presently hard 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 ecu Union (EU), the world's biggest 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 by means of the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by way of 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 parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and evaluate those theories and their resources in line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion a typical 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 global of foreign international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation in view that September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide each day, and the way it contributes on to U.