A Theory of Global Governance
Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation
Michael Zurn
Reviews and Awards
"This volume is an impressive synthetic text, pulling together the work of a couple of decades to sort out what is going on under the rubric of 'global governance'. Its sources cover the gamut of international relations thinking about institutions, international organizations, states, and how they have all worked to change governance over the last few decades. The story is far from simple, and much of this book is an attempt to parse out some clear findings from the confusion of empirical studies and theoretical approaches that dominate the vast literature on international governance, international regimes, law, and organization ... Michael Zürn's attempt to unravel how the politics of global governance has evolved so far is a very useful starting point to engage these debates." -- Simon Dalby, Prometheus
"It is therefore not difficult to imagine how Zürn's approach will inspire further studies that support or challenge TGG's model of global governance by offering more fine-grained empirical assessments of global institutions." -- Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Cardiff University, International Studies Review
"With a new systematic conceptual framework, this book goes beyond its predecessors by developing a general theory-which at times risks overgeneralization-on the evolution of the global governance system. Rich with insights, it is an important theoretical exploration about world politics in the 21st century." -- ZhengÂChen, China International Strategy Review
