Global security governance : competing perceptions of security in the 21st century / edited by Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirchner, Emil Joseph.

Sperling, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

National security.

Physical Description:

xviii, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

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. Divided into three parts and using 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: Examines the national 'exceptionalism' that accounts for foreign and security policy idiosyncrasies, Defines the range of threats preoccupying the government, foreign policy elites and public Assesses the institutional and instrumental preferences shaping national security policies, Investigates the allocation of resources between the various categories of security expenditure, Details the national security culture and its consequences for security cooperation.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041539161X

9780415391610

0415391628

9780415391627

0203964705

9780203964705

OCLC:

71241816