Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions Of Security In The 21st Century

Global Security Governance Demarcates The Barriers And Pathways To Major Power Security Cooperation And Provides An Empirical Analysis Of Threat Perception Among The World's Major Powers. By Combining A Coherent Theoretical Framework With Strong Comparative Case Studies Global Security Governance Contributes To The Ongoing Reconceptualization Of Security And Definition Of Threat And Provides A Basis For Reaching Tentative Conclusions About The Prospects For Global And Regional Security Governance In The Early Twenty-first Century. These Features Make It Ideal Reading For All Students Of Security Studies.--book Jacket. 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. Edited By Emil J. Kirchner And James Sperling. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.