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Global Security Governance Demarcates The Barriers And Pathways To Major Power Security Cooperation And Provides An Empirical Analysis Of Threat Perception Among The World's Major Powers. By Combining A Coherent Theoretical Framework With Strong Comparative Case Studies Global Security Governance Contributes To The Ongoing Reconceptualization Of Security And Definition Of Threat And Provides A Basis For Reaching Tentative Conclusions About The Prospects For Global And Regional Security Governance In The Early Twenty-first Century. These Features Make It Ideal Reading For All Students Of Security Studies.--book Jacket. 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. Edited By Emil J. Kirchner And James Sperling. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.