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 very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the major students within the box to check 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 e-book assesses many of the significant current and unresolved matters presently hard 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 progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. hence, the EU's total policy-making in the direction of Africa has suffered from a lack of credibility and this has been additional uncovered either via the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by means of 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 concept is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their assets in line with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a typical thread that seeks to specific 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 foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation seeing that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.