Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21st Century: Competing Visions of World Order

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ISBN: 9780415560542 | 0415560543
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Copyright: 3/10/2010

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This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21 st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.

List of illustrations	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
International security, Great Powers and world order	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Approaches to international relations and the concept of security	p. 6
World order paradigms	p. 12
Structure of the book	p. 17
Strategic threats: nature and evolution	p. 21
Terrorism and extremism	p. 23
Defining terrorism as a security threat	p. 25
Terrorism and extremism: the role of extremist ideologies	p. 27
The origins and periodization of terrorism	p. 29
The evolution of the understanding of terrorism	p. 30
Current trends in terrorism	p. 32
Anti-terrorism at the national level	p. 37
Anti-terrorism at the international level	p. 39
Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
The threat of WMD proliferation	p. 45
The challenge of managing WMD proliferation	p. 47
Future trends in WMD proliferation	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 60
Regional crisis, conflict and fragile states	p. 65
Are fragile states a strategic threat?	p. 65
State fragility, a new threat?	p. 68
Key challenges, obstacles and dilemmas	p. 72
Solutions, future trends and trajectories	p. 77
How energy and climate change may pose a threat to sustainable security	p. 82
The energy-climate era	p. 82
Energy security trends	p. 84
Energy as a security threat	p. 85
Climate change as a security threat	p. 88
Three groups of states on the Kuznets curve	p. 90
Sustainable future	p. 95
Centers of global power: strategic priorities and threat management	p. 99
The United States: leadership beyond unipolarity?	p. 101
Introduction	p. 101
Unipolarity	p. 101
The Bush revolution	p. 102
Change under Obama?	p. 107
Conclusion	p. 114
The Russian Federation: striving for multipolarity but missing the consequences	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
Foreign-policy thinking and decision-making	p. 118
Russia in/out/about the key international institutions	p. 120
Threat assessment and risk-management	p. 124
Migration, declining population and other human security challenges	p. 130
Conclusions	p. 131
China as an emergent center of global power	p. 137
China: emergent center of global power	p. 137
China's security priorities	p. 138
China's response	p. 145
Current trends and trajectories	p. 150
Global threats and India's quest for strategic space	p. 154
Terrorism and political extremism	p. 159
WMD proliferation	p. 161
Regional crises and fragile states	p. 164
Environmental and energy security	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 167
The EU: facing non-traditional threats in a globalized world	p. 171
The EU's foreign and security policy: an aspiration to be a global liberal actor	p. 172
The EU threat assessment: the prevalence of non-traditional threats	p. 175
Policy responses and instruments: still focused on crisis management	p. 178
Europeanization and globalization: the EU as the problem or the solution?	p. 184
Conclusion	p. 186
Conclusions: cooperative and conflictual imperatives	p. 191
Great Powers: towards a "cooperative competitive" future world order paradigm?	p. 193
Alternative global orders?	p. 197
2025: towards a globalized interdependent world order?	p. 200
What's past is prologue?	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 228
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