European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

The problem 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 a number of the top students within the box to ascertain the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses a few of the significant present and unresolved matters at present difficult the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the foreign scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal progress. the ecu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement relief supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. therefore, 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 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 idea 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 resources based on 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 foreign international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation because September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and world wide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.