Hearing on those conditions throughout the world that have fostered, or will foster, threats and challenges to the security of the U.S. Witnesses include: Senator Richard H. Bryan, State of Nevada; J. Stapleton Roy, Assistant Secretary of State of Intelligence and Research; Senator Richard C. Shelby, State of Alabama; George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA); and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.

This book demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception among the world’s major powers. Divided into three parts, Emil Kirchner and James Sperling use a common analytical framework for the changing security agenda in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the EU. Each chapter features: an examination of national ‘exceptionalism’ that accounts for foreign and security policy idiosyncrasies definitions of the range of threats preoccupying the government, foreign policy elites and the public assessments of the institutional and instrumental preferences shaping national security policies investigations on the allocation of resources between the various categories of security expenditure details on the elements of the national security culture and its consequences for security cooperation. Global Security Governance combines a coherent theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies, making it ideal reading for all students of security studies.

This edited volume examines changes of national security culture and the implications that this has for international security.

The Committee¿s work was shaped by events that occurred in late 2006 and early 2007. Contents: (1) Legislation: FISA Amend. Act of '08; Intell. Author. Bills for '07, '08, and '09; Implementing Recommend. of the 9/11 Comm. Act of '07; Nat. Def. Author. Act for FY '08; Insp. Gen. Reform Act of '08; Law of the Sea Convention; Amend. of Senate Resolution 400; (2) Oversight Activities: Hearings and Briefings; Study Groups; Comm. Inquiries and Reviews; Financial Accounting, Insp. Gen., and Audits; (3) Nominations: J. Michael McConnell, Dir. of Nat. Intell.; John Rizzo, Gen. Counsel, CIA; Donald Kerr, Prin. Dep. Dir. of Nat. Intell.; Michael Leiter, Dir. of the Nat. Counterterr. Center; Patrick Rowan, Assist. AG of Nat. Security, Dept. of Justice.