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 study. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the top students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this e-book assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved matters presently 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 monetary progress. the eu 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 extra uncovered either through the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by way of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have bought 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 parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their resources in accordance with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, ingenious and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a typical thread that seeks to specific 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 occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation due to the fact that September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yank diplomats, the e-book explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and all over the world on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.