TY - BOOK AU - Kirchner,Emil Joseph AU - Sperling,James TI - Global security governance : competing perceptions of security in the 21st century SN - 9780415391627 AV - JZ5588 .G583 2007 U1 - 355.033 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Security, International KW - National security N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -