Andrew Hurrell, University Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford University and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

Winner of the 2009 International Studies Best Book Award

"This is one of the finest books on the normative dimension of global governance published in the past decade. Utilizing insights from the English School, liberal institutionalism, and constructivism, the author addresses some of the most profound questions on the nature, limitations, and possibilities of global order in the twenty-first century...On Global Order should serve as a resource for a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of international relations and international law, international civil servants, diplomats, and journalists." - Samuel M. Makinda, Ethics and International Affairs

"On Global Order consciously and successfully sets out to be the twenty-first-century version of The Anarchical Society...a major statement and required reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of international relations." - Chris Brown Political Studies Review

"stands out as an oasis of clarity, intellectual honesty and wisdom in the desert of obscure platitudes ..." - Survival

"This book has been eagerly anticipated and it does not disappoint. Its principal concern is with the challenges of global order: capturing shared interests, managing unequal power, and mediating value conflict This is a subtle and challenging book at every level, and its prime characteristic is its consistent eschewal of facile options, either analytical or prescriptive." - Perspectives on Politics

"Hurrell avows himself explicitly to the tradition of neo-Grotianism established in particular by Hedley Bull and, more generally, by the English School of International Relations. He delivers, however, an essential contribution to the overcoming of a conceptual shortcoming which affected Bull's theory of the 'international society' ... [and] Hurrell consistently improves and substantiates the conceptual instruments traditionally used by the English School of International Relations." - The European Journal of International Law