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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herd, Graeme P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Routledge global security studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.