This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance. Through studies of Brazil, India, China, and other important developing countries within their respective regions such as Turkey and South Africa, we raise the question of the extent to which the challenge posed by the rising powers to global governance is likely to lead to an increase in democracy and social justice for the majority of the world's peoples.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

1. Intro: Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance 2. Capitalist Globalisation and the Problem of Stability: Enter the New Quintet and Other Emerging Powers 3. Recasting the Power Politics of Debt: Structural Power, Hegemonic Stabilisers & Change 4. Can China Lead? 5. Subimperialism as lubricant of neoliberalism: South African 'deputy sheriff' duty within BRICS 6. Brazil's Foreign Policy Priorities 7. The 'Ankara Moment': The Politics of Turkey's Regional Power in the Middle East, 2007-2011 8. Realising Justice 9. Rising Donors and the New Narrative of 'South-South' Cooperation: What Prospects for Changing the Landscape of Development Assistance Programs? 10. Rising powers and the future of democracy promotion: The case of Brazil and India

Kevin Gray is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2008), editor of (with Barry Gills) People Power in an Era of Global Crisis Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation (Routledge, 2012), and is currently preparing a manuscript titled 'Labour, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia', under contract with Routledge.

Craig N. Murphy is Research Professor at the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston. He is author of The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge University Press, 2009); (with Yates, J) (2009) The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus. (Routledge, 2009); International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Polity Press and Oxford University Press 1994).