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 examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the best students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from numerous longitudinal reports of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this publication assesses a number of the significant current and unresolved concerns at the moment not easy 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 fiscal development. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction 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 extra uncovered either via the luck of China's investments in Africa, and via the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have obtained 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 parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and examine those theories and their assets in accordance with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and intriguing theoretical works are disparate, in addition they proportion a standard 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 international of foreign international relations all the way down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation due to the fact September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.