Global Security Governance

<p>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. </p><p>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:</p><ul> <li>an examination of national ‘exceptionalism’ that accounts for foreign and security policy idiosyncrasies </li> <li>definitions of the range of threats preoccupying the government foreign policy elites and the public</li> <li>assessments of the institutional and instrumental preferences shaping national security policies </li> <li>investigations on the allocation of resources between the various categories of security expenditure </li> <li>details on the elements of the national security culture and its consequences for security cooperation. </li> </ul><p><em>Global Security Governance</em> combines a coherent theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies making it ideal reading for all students of security studies.</p>