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 reviews and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the major students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses the various significant present and unresolved concerns presently difficult 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 monetary progress. the ecu 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 good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by way 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 conception is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to evaluate those theories and their assets in keeping with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage 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 foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has passed through a dramatic transformation considering September eleven, 2001. in the course of the tales of yankee diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe each day, and the way it contributes on to U.