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 reports and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the prime students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved matters at present tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the overseas scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary development. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. for that reason, 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 by way of the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and through 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 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 response to a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion a standard thread that seeks to precise emancipatory ambitions 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 overseas international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has gone through a dramatic transformation given that September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book 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.