As globalization continues to spread and evolve, so nation-states attempt to govern financialization, tax evasion, corruption, terrorism, civil and military conflicts and environmental dangers, social polarization and the complexities in human rights implementation, by institutional and transnational means. This volume discusses these issues from different legal perspectives and highlights the challenges of governing human activity in an age of remarkable interconnectedness. Covering a broad range of policy areas and analysis of emerging forms of governance from liberal to critical and Marxist, the chapters are legal in their approach and form an important contribution to the growing study of emergent forms of authority, coordination and power developing in response to the challenges presented by some of the key contemporary governance issues in the first half of the twenty-first century.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Michael Head, Scott Mann and Simon Kozlina; Origins of transnational governance in the 19th century, Simon Chapple; Challenging neoliberal ideology in a global financial crisis, Scott Mann; Trade governance: legal institutionalism as a magnet for non-trade issues. A study of the mixed benefits of WTO dispute settlement for enforcing international obligations, Simon Kozlina; Taxation governance: could the Tobin tax assist in democratising globalisation?, Elfriede Sangkuhl; Corruption, international business transactions and the OECD, John Juriansz and Maria Nehme; Human rights and international environmental governance, Laura Horn; Global governance implications of terrorism: using UN Resolutions to justify abuse of basic rights, Michael Head; International criminal governance: will the International Criminal Court be an 'effective' mechanism for justice?, Steven Freeland; Governing humanitarian intervention: time for change, Michelle Sanson; Index.