Global security governance  competing perceptions of security in the 21st century /  [electronic resource] : 
[edited] by Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling. 
 - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon :  New York : Routledge,  2007. 
 - xviii, 290 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203964705 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Security, International.<br/>National security.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.