Global security governance : competing perceptions of security in the 21st century

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Title:

Author:

Kirchner, Emil Joseph.

ISBN:

9780415391610

9780415391627

9780203964705

Publication Information:

London : New York : Routledge, 2007.

Physical Description:

xviii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Regional and global security : changing threats and institutional responses / Emil J. Kirchner -- France : between exceptionalism and orthodoxy / Thierry Tardy -- Germany : from a reluctant power to a constructive power? / Alexander Siedschlag -- Italy : new ambitions and old deficiencies / Paolo Foradori and Paolo Rosa -- United Kingdom : punching above its weight / Elke Krahmann -- European Union : the European security strategy versus national preferences / Emil J. Kirchner -- Canada : taking security seriously after 11 September? / Osvaldo Croci and Amy Verdun -- United States : the unrelenting search for an existential threat in the twenty-first century / James Sperling -- China : security cooperation with reservations / Liselotte Odgaard -- Japan : recasting the post-war security consensus / Haruhiro Fukui -- Russia : struggling for dignity / Katja Mirwaldt with Vladimir I. Ivanov -- Regional or global security cooperation? : the vertices of conflict and interstices of cooperation / James Sperling.

Subject Term:

Security, International.

National security.

Added Author:

Kirchner, Emil Joseph.

Sperling, James.

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Summary

This book demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception among the world's major powers.

Divided into three parts, Emil Kirchner and James Sperling use a common analytical framework for the changing security agenda in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the EU. Each chapter features:

an examination of national 'exceptionalism' that accounts for foreign and security policy idiosyncrasies definitions of the range of threats preoccupying the government, foreign policy elites and the public assessments of the institutional and instrumental preferences shaping national security policies investigations on the allocation of resources between the various categories of security expenditure details on the elements of the national security culture and its consequences for security cooperation.

Global Security Governance combines a coherent theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies, making it ideal reading for all students of security studies.