World Powers
This section covers the structural power of three states - the United States, Russia and China - and the increasingly influential structures under the umbrella term of 'Islamic World'. The resources under these titles consider the nature of the EU's relationship with, and policy towards, these other powers, and refers to information and data (on military power, population, etc...) to compare the Union with these other powers.
Links
This database system (from SIPRI) covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database consistent time series on the military spending of 172 countries since 1988.
SIPRI publications on military expenditure can be browsed here
The SIPRI Arms
Industry Database contains financial and employment data on most of the
largest arms-producing companies around the world.Browse for SIPRI publications on arms production, transfers and military technology.
This is not an official home page, but a site maintained by the University of Toronto G7/8 Research Centre. It contains G7/8 documents but also analysis.
Literature
Kagan, R. (2003) Paradise and Power, London: Atlantic Books.
Campbell, C. (2007) The easternization of the West. A thematic account of cultural change in the modern era. Boulder/London: Paradigm Publishers.
Mahbubani, K. (2008) The New Asian Hemisphere. The irresistable shift of global power to the East. New York: Public Affairs.
Lennon, A., T.J., & Kozlowski, A. (Eds.) (2008) Global powers in the 21st century. Strategy and relations. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Bindi, F. (Ed.) (2009) The foreign policy of the European Union. Assessing Europe's role in the world. Washington: Brookings institution press.
Aggestam, L. (2010) European foreign policy and the quest for a global role. Britain, France and Germany. London: Routledge.
Lucarelli, Sonia, and Lorenzo Fioramonti, eds. (2010) External perceptions of the European Union as a global actor. Oxon: Routledge.
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