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 many of the best students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses many of the significant current and unresolved matters at the moment difficult the self-discipline.

China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?

China's upward push at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest 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 way of the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way of 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 thought is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their resources based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, innovative and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, additionally 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 global of foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation seeing that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and world wide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.