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 experiences and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage examine. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the best students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from a number of longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses many of the significant present and unresolved concerns presently difficult the self-discipline.

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

China's upward thrust at the foreign scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary progress. the ecu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. accordingly, 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 means of 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 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 resources in line with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion a typical thread that seeks to precise 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 international 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 that September eleven, 2001. in the course of 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.