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 especially amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the prime students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses the various significant latest and unresolved concerns at present tough the self-discipline.

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

China's upward push at the overseas scene over 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 this 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 luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have got 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 evaluate those theories and their resources in line with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition 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 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 on the grounds that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet 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.