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

Part 1: Introduction  1. International Security, Great Powers and World Order Graeme P. Herd and Pal Dunay  Part 2: Strategic Threats: Nature and Evolution  2. Terrorism and Political Extremism Ekaterina Stepanova  3. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Gustav Lindstrom  4. Regional Crisis, Conflict and Fragile States Caty Clement  5. How Energy and Climate Change may pose a Threat to Sustainable Security Tapani Vaahtoranta  Part 3: Centres of Global Power: Strategic Priorities and Threat Management  6. The United States: Leadership Beyond Unipolarity? Matthew Rhodes  7. The Russian Federation: Striving for Multi-Polarity but Missing the Consequences Pavel K. Baev  8. China as an Emergent Center of Global Power Bates Gill  9. India’s Eclectic Approach to Global Strategic Threats Siddharth Varadarajan  10. The European Union, Facing Non Traditional Threats in a Globalized World Thierry Tardy  Part 4: Conclusions: Cooperation and Conflictual Imperatives  11. Great Powers, Strategic Threats and Uncharted Waters Graeme P. Herd