LEADER 03910oam 2200793I 450 001 9910458973903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-23339-X 010 $a1-135-23340-3 010 $a1-282-57634-8 010 $a9786612576348 010 $a0-203-86582-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203865828 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009345 035 $a(EBL)484773 035 $a(OCoLC)609856115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000360786 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11257475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000360786 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10344301 035 $a(PQKB)10316788 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001145462 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12490321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145462 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11119196 035 $a(PQKB)10690726 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC484773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL484773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10371457 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL257634 035 $a(OCoLC)610062864 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009345 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGreat powers and strategic stability in the 21st century $ecompeting visions of world order /$fedited by Graeme P. Herd 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge/GCSP,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge global security studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-58579-1 311 $a0-415-56054-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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? 327 $a7 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 330 $aThis book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual capacity of Great Powers to manage increasingly interconnected strategic threats (not least, terrorism and political extremism, WMD proliferation, fragile states, regional crises and conflict and the energy-climate nexus) in the 21st century. The contributors question whether global order wi 410 0$aRoutledge global security studies. 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aPolitical stability 606 $aGreat powers 606 $aWorld politics$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 0$aPolitical stability. 615 0$aGreat powers. 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a327.1 701 $aHerd$b Graeme P$0855387 712 02$aGeneva Centre for Security Policy. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458973903321 996 $aGreat powers and strategic stability in the 21st century$92457153 997 $aUNINA