Emil Kirchner / James Sperling

Global Security Governance

Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Kirchner, Emil J; Sperling, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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; and 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780415391627
• ISBN-10: 0415391628
• Artikelnr.: 21665788

Autorenporträt

Emil Kirchner is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Essex. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of European Integration. James Sperling is Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, Texas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Regional and Global Security: Changing Threats and
Institutional Responses Part 1: Europe 2. France: Between Exceptionalism
and Orthodoxy 3. Germany: From a Reluctant Power to a Constructive Power?
4. Italy: New Ambitions and Old Deficiencies 5. United Kingdom: Punching
above its Weight 6. European Union: The European Security Strategy versus
National Preferences Part 2: North America 7. Canada: Taking Security
Seriously after 11 September? 8. United States: The Unrelenting Search for
an Existential Threat in the Twenty-First Century Part 3: Eurasia 9. China:
Security Cooperation with Reservations 10. Japan: Recasting the Post-War
Security Consensus 11. Russia: Struggling for Dignity Conclusion 12.
Regional or Global Security Cooperation? The Vertices of Conflict and
Interstices of Cooperation