After decades of neoliberalism, the public is back - but in ways that challenge conventional wisdom about the public/private divide.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Jacqueline Best and Alexandra Gheciu; 2. Theorizing the public as practices: transformations of the public in historical context Jacqueline Best and Alexandra Gheciu; Part II. Transformations of the Public in Historical Context: 3. The dynamics of 'private' security strategies and their public consequences: transnational organizations in historical perspective Deborah Avant and Virginia Haufler; 4. Out from the shadows: governing OTC derivatives after the 2007-8 financial crisis Eric Helleiner; Part III. Reconstituting the Global Public Today: 5. The 'demand side' of good governance: the return of the public in World Bank policy Jacqueline Best; 6. The publicness of non-state global environmental and social governance Steven Bernstein; 7. Climate re-public: practising public space in conditions of extreme complexity Matthew Paterson; 8. Transforming the logic of security provision in post-Communist Europe Alexandra Gheciu; 9. Understanding US national intelligence: analyzing practices to capture the chimera Anna Leander; Part IV. Conceptualizing the Public as Practices: Theoretical Implications: 10. Constitutive public practices in a world of changing boundaries Tony Porter; 11. Publics, practices, and power Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams.