| List of Illustrations | xiii |
| Preface | xv |
| Part 1 | Understanding Global Governance | |
| 1 | The Challenges of Global Governance | 3 |
| What Is Global Governance? | 3 |
| The Pieces of Global Governance | 4 |
| Actors in Global Governance | 15 |
| An Increasing Need for Global Governance? | 21 |
| Processes of Global Governance: Multilateralism Matters | 26 |
| The Politics and Effectiveness of Global Governance | 30 |
| 2 | The Theoretical Foundations of Global Governance | 35 |
| Liberalism | 35 |
| Realism | 45 |
| Constructivism: An Alternative Approach | 50 |
| Critical Theories | 52 |
| Theories of Organizations | 56 |
| IR Theory and Global Governance | 59 |
| Part 2 | Evolving Pieces of Global Governance | |
| 3 | Foundations of the Pieces of Global Governance | 63 |
| The State System and Its Weaknesses | 64 |
| Governance Innovations in the Nineteenth Century | 65 |
| Multilateralism in the Twentieth Century | 68 |
| 4 | The United Nations: Centerpiece of Global Governance | 97 |
| Foundations of the United Nations | 98 |
| The Major Organs of the UN | 101 |
| World Politics and the Evolution of the United Nations | 126 |
| Persistent Organizational Problems and the Need for Reform | 132 |
| The UN's Relationship to Regional Organizations | 142 |
| 5 | Regional Organizations | 145 |
| The Roots and Dynamics of Regionalism | 148 |
| Europe's Regional Organizations | 153 |
| Regional Organizations in the Americas | 176 |
| Asia's Regional Organizations | 189 |
| Africa's Regional Organizations | 200 |
| Middle East Regional Organizations | 206 |
| Assessing the Consequences of Regionalism | 209 |
| 6 | Nonstate Actors: NGOs, Networks, and Social Movements | 211 |
| Nonstate Actors in Action | 211 |
| The Range of Nonstate Actors | 213 |
| The Growth of Nonstate Actors | 224 |
| NGOs Relationships to IGOs | 230 |
| NGO Influence and Its Limits | 240 |
| 7 | The Roles of States in Global Governance | 249 |
| States in Action | 249 |
| States and Other Actors: A Complex Interaction | 250 |
| The Key Role of the United States | 252 |
| Other Powerful States | 257 |
| Middle-Power States | 262 |
| Small States, Developing States | 264 |
| State Strategies | 265 |
| The Challenges of Multilateral Diplomacy: Negotiating Across Cultures | 270 |
| Getting Agreement | 273 |
| Part 3 | The Need for Global Governance | |
| 8 | The Search for Peace and Security | 277 |
| Case Study: Somalia as a Watershed | 277 |
| Wars as the Genesis for Pieces of Security Governance | 279 |
| Mechanisms for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes | 289 |
| Collective Security, Enforcement, and Sanctions | 297 |
| Peacekeeping | 306 |
| Arms Control and Disarmament | 327 |
| Putting Together the Pieces of Security Governance | 336 |
| New Threats to Security: Coping with Terrorism | 344 |
| The Challenges of Human Security | 353 |
| 9 | Promoting Human Development and Economic Well-Being | 355 |
| Case Study: Debt Relief | 355 |
| An Evolving Global Economy | 358 |
| The Globalization of Liberal Economic Norms | 359 |
| Pieces of Global Economic Governance | 363 |
| The Regionalization of Economic Governance | 392 |
| Economic Globalization and Africa: A Problematic Case | 402 |
| From Critiques of the Liberal Economic System to the Antiglobalization Movement | 406 |
| 10 | Protecting Human Rights | 413 |
| Case Study: Child Soldiers | 413 |
| The Roots of Human Rights Norms | 415 |
| Human Rights Institutions and Mechanisms | 419 |
| The Processes of Human Rights Governance | 428 |
| Global Human Rights Governance in Action | 447 |
| Expanding Human Rights in the Age of Globalization | 456 |
| 11 | Protecting the Environment | 459 |
| Case Study: Tropical Forests in the Brazilian Amazon | 459 |
| Relating Environmental Problems to Security, Economics, and Human Rights | 462 |
| The Emergence of the Environment as an Issue Area | 463 |
| The Pieces of Global Environmental Governance | 464 |
| Global Environmental Regimes and Institutions | 472 |
| Global Governance in Action | 481 |
| Regional Environmental Governance | 486 |
| The Challenges of Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness | 493 |
| Part 4 | The Dilemmas of Global Governance | |
| 12 | Dilemmas of Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century | 499 |
| New Issues, Diverse Approaches | 499 |
| What Makes Global Governance Different? | 510 |
| Challenges for the Future | 514 |
| List of Acronyms | 521 |
| References | 529 |
| Index | 563 |
| About the Book | 603 |
