Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center, New York; he is also Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

1. Making Sense of Global Governance Futures PART I: PLANETARY Introduction 2. Global Governance and the Anthropocene: Explaining the Escalating Global Crisis 3. War: The Governance of Violence and the Violence of Governance 4. Geopolitics: Competition in an Age of Shared Global Threats 5. Civilizations: Fusion or Clash? 6. Regions and Regionalism: Confronting New Forms of Connectedness 7. Cities: Understanding Global Urban Governance PART II: DIVIDES Introduction 8. Human Rights after the West: Goodbye to All That 9. Migration Governance 2050: Utopia, Dystopia, or Heterotopia? 10. The Global Governance of Poverty and Inequality 11. Race: Apartheid Governance on a Global Scale 12. People: Who Governs and Who Is Governed? PART III: CHALLENGES Introduction 13. Food: Governance Challenges for a Hot and Hungry Planet 14. Health: Less Global, Less Health, Less Governance 15. Climate Action: Beyond the Paris Agreement 16. Biodiversity: Protecting the Planetary Web of Life 17. Aid: The COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond 18. Data: Global Governance Challenges 19. Illicit Drugs: Prohibition and the International Drug Control Regime