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.
Author(s): Emil Kirchner
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 312
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of tables......Page 8
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
1 Regional and global security: Changing threats and institutional responses......Page 22
Part I Europe......Page 42
2 France: Between exceptionalism and orthodoxy......Page 44
3 Germany: From a reluctant power to a constructive power?......Page 65
4 Italy: New ambitions and old deficiencies......Page 88
5 United Kingdom: Punching above its weight......Page 112
6 European Union: The European Security Strategy versus national preferences......Page 132
Part II North America......Page 154
7 Canada: Taking security seriously after 11 September?......Page 156
8 United States: The unrelenting search for an existential threat in the twenty-first century......Page 180
Part III Eurasia......Page 216
9 China: Security cooperation with reservations......Page 218
10 Japan: Recasting the post-war security consensus......Page 238
11 Russia: Struggling for dignity......Page 257
Part IV Conclusion......Page 280
12 Regional or global security co operation? The vertices of conflict and interstices of cooperation......Page 282
Index......Page 306
