Kenneth W. Abbott is Jack E. Brown Chair in Law and Professor of Global Studies Emeritus, Arizona State University.

Duncan Snidal is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal's influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements.

Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Institutional Diversity and Indirect Governance Part II. Private Institutions and Voluntary Standards Chapter 2. International "Standards" and International Governance Chapter 3. The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State Part III. Orchestration of Public and Private Institutions Chapter 4. Strengthening International Regulation through Transnational New Governance: Overcoming the Orchestration Deficit Chapter 5. Orchestration: Global Governance through Intermediaries Chapter 6. Orchestrating Global Governance: From Empirical Findings to Theoretical Implications Chapter 7. Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration Part IV. Beyond Orchestration: Governing Through Public and Private Intermediaries Chapter 8. Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model Chapter 9. Competence versus Control: The Governor's Dilemma