Foreword by Lord Mark Sedwill
Introduction (Paul O’Neill)
1. National security structures in Africa (Ann M. Fitz-Gerald)
2. Argentina and the long quest for a National Security Council
(Martin Verrier)
3. National security in Canada (Hugh Segal and Ann M. Fitz-Gerald)
4. Colombia’s National Security Council and the fluid architecture for presidential counselling (Oscar Palma)
5. Centralized decision-making in France: The non-permanent Defence and National Security Council (Patrick Chevallereau)
6. A National Security Council: Georgia’s historic challenge to get it right (Natia Seskuria)
7. Ghana’s National Security Council: Negotiating institutional and political decision-making processes
(Kwesi Aning and Naila Salihu)
8. India’s National Security Council: Addressing a strategic gap (Aaditya Dave)
9. Iraq’s National Security Council: From Repression to Inclusive Security (Manuel Almeida and Aram Habeeb)
10. Israel’s National Security Staff comes of age (Charles (Chuck) Freilich)
11. Japan’s National Security Council since 2013: The Abe and Suga administrations (Yasuhiro Matsuda)
12. Kenya’s National Security Council: Balancing democratic control and executive power (Singo S. Mwachofi)
13. New Zealand: Small but integrated (Jim Rolfe)
14. Disjointed security: Assessing Norway’s national security sector
(Anders Romarheim)
15. South Africa: In search of both security and process (Abel Esterhuyse)
16. The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine: Responding to state aggression (Hanna Shelest)
17. The British National Security Council: It takes a village (Catarina Thomson)
18. Washington’s ‘Keepers of the Keys’ (Frank Hoffman)
19. Case study analysis (Paul O’Neill)
20. The orchestration of National Security Systems: The NSC as conductor (Paul O’Neill)
Afterword
Author biographies
Selected Further Reading
Endorsements
Index