Kerrin Langer & Thomas Müller 
Comparisons in Global Security Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Representing and Ordering the World

Introduction: Practices All the Way Down? Comparisons in Global Security Politics – Thomas Müller, Mathias Albert and Kerrin Langer

PART I: Teasing Out Comparative Practices

2. The Construction of Status in Security Politics: Rules, Comparisons and Second-Guessing Collective Beliefs – Paul Beaumont

3. Defence Analysis and Military Data at the IISS: How to Count and When is a Tank Modern? – Bastian Giegerich and James Hackett

4. Seeing Deterrence and Defence: Visual Representations of Military Force Comparisons between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the 1980s – Gabi Schlag

5. What Drives Status Comparisons? An Experimental Study of Status Attribution in the Field of Space Exploration – Paul Musgrave and Steven Ward

PART II: How Comparisons Constitute Governance Objects

6. Not Yet Comparable? Maritime Security Knowledge and the Messiness of Epistemic Infrastructures – Christian Bueger

7. Framing (State) Fragility: The Construction of Imaginary Global Spaces – Keith Krause

8. Mapping the Dark and Ornamenting the Order: Comparisons in Global Crime Governance – Anja P. Jakobi and Lena Herbst

9. The Cybersecurity Ecosystem and the Datafication of Threats and Capabilities – Madeleine Myatt and Thomas Müller

PART III: How Comparisons Reshape Competitive Dynamics

10. ‘The Old World Fought, the Modern World Counts’: Naval Armament Policies, Force Comparisons and International Status, 1889–1922 – Kerrin Langer

11. Force Comparison and Conventional Arms Control at the End of the East–West Conflict – Hans-Joachim Schmidt

12. ‘Winning the Technology Competition’: Narratives, Power Comparisons and the US–China AI Race – Nike Retzmann

13. Conclusion: Comparative Ordering in Security Politics and Beyond – Thomas Müller

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University.