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 stories and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage study. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication 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 during the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary development. the ecu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. accordingly, 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 good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and through 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 and evaluate those theories and their assets in line with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, innovative and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical 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 right 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. during the tales of yank diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and world wide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.