Are we creating an ungovernable world? Can we be con.dent that our existing modes of global governance are suf.cient, or suf.ciently adaptable, to meet the challenges of rapid and pervasive globalisation? Are there sound reasons for supposing that humanity’s actions and creations will stay within the bounds of our processes of deliberation and regulation?

The Limits of Global Governance addresses these questions and provides a provocative examination of the cognitive, practical and political limits on our ability to exercise systems of regulation and control on the same scale as the globalising forces already shaping the human condition. Issues that are addressed include:

• an examination of the many meanings of ‘global governance’
• a contextualised view of global governance within the complex interaction of human and natural systems
• an analysis of global governance at a fundamental and conceptual level
• a case study of disseminative systems and global governance

This book is essential reading for those with research interests in Global Politics, International Relations and Globalisation.

The Author

Jim Whitman is Director of the MA programme in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, Co-editor of the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance and General Editor of the Palgrave Global Issues series.