Craig Murphy's groundbreaking book examines the measures that global institutions have taken, assesses the limited success of global governance and provides a coruscating expose of its failures.

1. Institutions and Marginalization 2. International Institutions and the Pursuit of Human Needs 3. International Organization and the Unfolding of Liberal Internationalism 4. The Historical Processes of Establishing Institutions of Global Governance 5. A Twice Passed-Over Alternative: The promise of democratic 'functionalism' in the 1930s and 1990s 6. International Institutions, Decolonisation and Development 7. The Failure of the Third World Alliance 8. Freezing the North-South Bloc(k) after the East-West Thaw 9. Global Governance: Poorly done and poorly understood 10. Political Consequences of the New Equality 11. The Epistemology of Poverty and the Poverty Epistemology 12. Building Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century 13. Marginalization, Development and International Relations