MARKUS LEDERER is a Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany. PHILIPP S. MULLER is Professor for Public Policy at the Graduate School for Public Administration and Public Policy of Tecnol

"The world is governed - but how? This terrific collection of new voices from law and political science offers a range of innovative, provocative and fascinating answers to that question. They are united by skepticism about the conventional stories we tell ourselves about global governance - that ours is a world of anarchic politics, of networked legal regimes, or of market freedom beyond the reach of regulation. Methodologically diverse, sophisticated and altogether fresh, these probing and interdisciplinary essays will make you think again - and again." - David Kennedy, Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 'An excellent collection of essays by a new generation of critical scholars on central issues of international order. This book will be read with profit by international relations specialists and international lawyers, as well as the by attentive general public.' - Friedrich Kratochwil, Chair of International Relations, European University Institute, Florence 'This book constitutes a long overdue contribution to the debate on global governance by 'bringing politics back in.' The authors share a common point of departure, namely that global governance is an essentially contested concept. As a result, Criticizing Global Governance is required reading for anybody who cares about contemporary world politics.' - Thomas Risse, Professor of International Politics, Freie Universitat Berlin

• Introduction; M.Lederer & P.Muller Inside Global Governance: New Borders of a Concept; K.Späth Global Governance as the Hegemonic Project of Transatlantic Civil Society; J.Friedrichs The Globe and the Ghetto; F.Johns Democratising Global Governance - Beyond the Domestic Analogy; H.Patomäki Shifting Political Identities and Global Governance of the Justified Use of Force; A.Leander Global Governance through the Institutional Lense; M.Finger Global Governance and Domestic Politics: Fragmented Visions; B.Cali & A.Ergun Reconstructing the Balkans: A Global Governance Construct; R.Johnson The International Lawyer as Agent of Global Governance; A.L.Paulus Human Rights as Civil Religion: The Glue for Global Governance?; J.L.Owen Transnational Private Litigation and Transnational Governance; R.Wai