Great powers and strategic stability in the 21st century : competing visions of world order / / edited by Graeme P. Herd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792463003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge/GCSP, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-135-23339-X; 1-135-23340-3; 1-282-57634-8; 9786612576348; 0-203-86582-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Routledge global security studies
• Altri autori (Persone): HerdGraeme P
• Disciplina: 327.1
• Soggetti: Security, International; Political stability; Great powers; World politics - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 International security, Great Powers and world order; Part II Strategic threats: Nature and evolution; 2 Terrorism and extremism; 3 Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; 4 Regional crisis, conflict and fragile states; 5 How energy and climate change may pose a threat to sustainable security; Part III Centers of global power: Strategic priorities and threat management; 6 The United States: Leadership beyond unipolarity?; 7 The Russian Federation: Striving for multipolarity but missing the consequences8 China as an emergent center of global power; 9 Global threats and India's quest for strategic space; 10 The EU: Facing non- traditional threats in a globalized world; Part IV Conclusions: Cooperative and conflictual imperatives; 11 Great Powers: Towards a "cooperative competitive" future world order paradigm?; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st ; century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual capacity of Great Powers to manage increasingly interconnected strategic threats (not least, terrorism and political extremism, WMD proliferation, fragile states, regional crises and conflict and the energy-climate nexus) in the 21st century. The contributors question whether global order wi