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 study. This edited quantity brings jointly the various prime students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses a number of the significant present and unresolved concerns at present hard the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the overseas scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential fiscal development. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest 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 extra uncovered either via the luck of China's investments in Africa, and via 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 thought 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 based on a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, resourceful and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a typical thread that seeks to precise emancipatory targets 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 due to the fact September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world each day, and the way it contributes on to U.