This follow-up to Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World (Palgrave, 2006) seeks to understand why even well-intended efforts to resolve pressing international and global problems so often appear to fail spectacularly and what can be done to remedy this. The author analyzes four of the biggest global governance failures of the last few decades.

STEVEN NEY Professor of Policy Studies at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany MICHAEL THOMPSON Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria CRISTINA GRECULESCU Jacobs University's Registrar's Office, Germany