Great Powers And Strategic Stability In The 21st Century: Competing Visions Of World Order (routledge Global Security Studies)

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. 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 21^st^ century. The contributors question whether global order will increasingly be characterised by a predictable interdependent one-world system, as strategic threats create interest-based incentives and functional benefits. The work moves on to argue that the operational concept of world order is a Concert of Great Powers directing a new institutional order, norms and regimes whose combination is strategic-threat specific, regionally sensitive, loosely organised, and inclusive of major states (not least Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Indonesia). Leadership can be singular, collective or coalition-based and this will characterise the nature of strategic stability and world order in the 21^st^ century. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, grand strategy, foreign policy and IR. **Graeme P. Herd** is Co-Director of the International Training Course in Security Policy at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is co-author of several books and co-editor of __The Ideological War on Terror: World Wide Strategies for Counter Terrorism__ (2007), __Soft Security Threats and European Security__ (2005), __Security Dynamics of the former Soviet Bloc__ (2003) and __Russia and the Regions: Strength through Weakness__ (2003). 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. 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 21 st century. The contributors question whether global order will increasingly be characterised by a predictable interdependent one-world system, as strategic threats create interest-based incentives and functional benefits. The work moves on to argue that the operational concept of world order is a Concert of Great Powers directing a new institutional order, norms and regimes whose combination is strategic-threat specific, regionally sensitive, loosely organised, and inclusive of major states (not least Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Indonesia). Leadership can be singular, collective or coalition-based and this will characterise the nature of strategic stability and world order in the 21 st century. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, grand strategy, foreign policy and IR. Graeme P. Herd is Co-Director of the International Training Course in Security Policy at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is co-author of several books and co-editor of The Ideological War on Terror: World Wide Strategies for Counter Terrorism (2007), Soft Security Threats and European Security (2005), Security Dynamics of the former Soviet Bloc (2003) and Russia and the Regions: Strength through Weakness (2003). Social Sciences Book Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 10 Illustrations 14 Contributors 15 Foreword 20 Acknowledgments 22 Part I Introduction 24 1 International security, Great Powers and world order 26 Part II Strategic threats: Nature and evolution 44 2 Terrorism and extremism 46 3 Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 68 4 Regional crisis, conflict and fragile states 88 5 How energy and climate change may pose a threat to sustainable security 105 Part III Centers of global power: Strategic priorities and threat management 122 6 The United States: Leadership beyond unipolarity? 124 7 The Russian Federation: Striving for multipolarity but missing the consequences 140 8 China as an emergent center of global power 160 9 Global threats and India’s quest for strategic space 177 10 The EU: Facing non- traditional threats in a globalized world 194 Part IV Conclusions: Cooperative and conflictual imperatives 214 11 Great Powers: Towards a “cooperative competitive” future world order paradigm? 216 Bibliography 232 Index 251 This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century and examines the role of the key centres of global power - America, the European Union, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats Edited By Graeme P. Herd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.