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 examine. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses a number of the significant current and unresolved concerns at present hard the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the foreign scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential financial progress. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement relief 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 via the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have obtained 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 to evaluate those theories and their resources in line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a standard thread that seeks to precise emancipatory pursuits 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 for the reason that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yank diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world each day, and the way it contributes on to U.