Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established after World War II, have given way to alternative forms of organization focused on market or network-based architectures. Each chapter explores whether these changes are likely to lead to more or less effective global governance across a wide range of issue areas. This provides a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing change in global governance.

自冷战结束以来，全球治理受到了越来越大的压力。在一些问题领域，这些压力导致了治理机构架构的重大变化。在其他领域，机构抵制了变革的压力。本书通过确定三种治理模式：等级制度、网络和市场，探讨了结构上的这种分歧的原因。作者将这些理想类型应用于不同的问题领域，以评估全球治理是如何变化的以及为什么。在大多数问题领域，二战后建立的等级治理模式已经让位于以市场或网络为基础架构的替代组织形式。每一章都探讨了这些变化是否有可能在广泛的问题领域导致更有效或更不有效的全球治理。这为分析全球治理的变化提供了一个新颖而连贯的理论框架。