Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century

by Kirchner; Emil

• ISBN13: 9780415391627
• ISBN10: 0415391628
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
List of contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Regional and global security: changing threats and institutional responses	p. 3
Europe	p. 23
France: between exceptionalism and orthodoxy	p. 25
Germany: from a reluctant power to a constructive power?	p. 46
Italy: new ambitions and old deficiencies	p. 69
United Kingdom: punching above its weight	p. 93
European Union: the European Security Strategy versus national preferences	p. 113
North America	p. 135
Canada: taking security seriously after 11 September?	p. 137
United States: the unrelenting search for an existential threat in the twenty-first century	p. 161
Eurasia	p. 197
China: security cooperation with reservations	p. 199
Japan: recasting the post-war security consensus	p. 219
Russia: struggling for dignity	p. 238
Conclusion	p. 261
Regional or global security cooperation? The vertices of conflict and interstices of cooperation	p. 263
Index	p. 287
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