A compelling theorization of global leadership and global crises, with reflections on prospects for more effective and legitimate global governance.

Part I. Concepts of Global Leadership and Dominant Strategies: 1. Leaders and led in an era of global crises Stephen Gill; 2. Leadership, neoliberal governance and global economic crisis: a Gramscian analysis Nicola Short; 3. Private transnational governance and the crisis of global leadership A. Claire Cutler; Part II. Changing Material Conditions of Existence and Global Leadership - Energy, Climate Change and Water: 4. The crisis of petro-market civilization - the past as prologue? Tim Di Muzio; 5. Global climate change, human security, and the future of democracy Richard A. Falk; 6. The emerging global freshwater crisis and the privatization of global leadership Hilal Elver; Part III. Global Leadership Ethics, Crises and Subaltern Forces: 7. Global leadership, ethics and global health - the search for new paradigms Solomon R. Benatar; 8. Global leadership and the Islamic world - crisis, contention and challenge Mustapha Kamal Pasha; 9. Public and insurgent reason - adjudicatory leadership in a hyper-globalizing world Upendra Baxi; Part IV. Prospects for Alternative Forms of Global Leadership: 10. Global democratization without hierarchy or leadership? The world social forum in the capitalist world Teivo Teivainen; 11. After neoliberalism - left versus right projects of leadership in the global crisis Ingar Solty; 12. Crises, social forces and the future of global governance - implications for progressive strategy Adam Harmes; 13. Organic crisis, global leadership and progressive alternatives Stephen Gill.