National Security Cultures: Patterns of Global Governance
National Security Culturesoffers a tightly argued, deeply researched, and empirically encompassing analysis. It establishes the enduring imprints Westphalian and post-Westphalian state structures have on governance in East and West. And it tracks the variable effects of national security cultures on policies spanning the full governance spectrum. An impressive achievement that will become required reading in the field of security studies. -Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, USAThe result of empirical research conducted by an impressive international team of scholars, this is a rigorous and systematic examination of national security cultures across a wide swath of the world. The authors follow a common framework in an exemplary collaborative project which reveals important insights into the fundamental question of the relationship between culture and security policy and the extent to which security concepts in the West can be transferred to other regions.-Stephen F. Szabo, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy, USAEmil Kirchner and James Sperling have produced a welcome addition to the literature on national security cultures by applying the concept to the pressing problem of global and regional security governance.Country experts, area specialists, and international relations theorists with an interest in these topics will all want to consult this volume. -John S. Duffield Professor of Political Science Georgia State University, USAInterest in security governance has risen and fallen in the past ten years; now again on the rise, the concept is in great need of theoretical exposition and empirical grounding; and that is what this book achieves. In a welcome and highly ambitious study, the focus on security governance - so often constrained to Europe - is examined globally. In all these contexts, it is an exceptionally important book. -Stuart Croft, Professor of International Security, Warwick University. UK'The collection of essays and the book’s overarching framework make a positive and rich contribution to the international debate on security cultures, strategies and policies.'-The International Spectator, Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2011), 161