While diplomacy is a well-established topic for study, global governance is a relatively new arrival to the conceptual landscape of international relations. At first glance the two exist in separate worlds. This book examines the relationship between these two concepts for the first time in a comprehensive manner.

ANDREW F. COOPER is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has authored and edited many books published internationally, including his most recent work Celebrity Diplomacy. 
 
BRIAN HOCKING is Professor of International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.
 
WILLIAM MALEY is Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University, Australia. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University. His books include Rescuing Afghanistan and The Afghanistan Wars.

Introduction: Diplomacy and Global Governance; A.F.Cooper, B.Hocking& W.Maley PART ONE: CONTEXTUAL CHALLENGES Globalization and Diplomacy; I.Neumann Global Governance: Challenges to Diplomatic Communication, Representation and Recognition; C.Jönsson From Government to Governance: Transition to a New Diplomacy; J.A.Scholte PART TWO: AUTHORITY BEYOND THE STATE EU Governance and Global Governance: New Roles for EU Diplomats; D.Spence Business - Government - NGO Relations: Their Impact on Global Economic Governance; R.Saner& L.Yiu A Twilight Zone? Diplomacy and the International Committee of the Red Cross; M.Letts& I.Cook Research Institutes as Diplomatic Actors; S.Sundararaman PART THREE: TARGETING THE POLICY ARENAS OF INTERACTION The New International Security Agenda and the Practice of Diplomacy; S.Riordan Towards a New Architecture of Global Governance for Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic; F.Lisk Family Dramas: Politics, Diplomacy and Governance in the WTO; R.Wilkinson The World Summit on Information Society and the Development of Internet Diplomacy; J.Kurbalija PART FOUR: RESTRICTIVE DICHOTOMIES AND OPEN-ENDED TRAJECTORIES 'A Home at the United Nations': Indigenous Peoples and International Advocacy; M.Davis Interfaith Dialogue, Diplomacy and the Cartoon Controversy; S.Yasmeen Public Diplomacy and Governance: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners; B.Gregory Stretching the Model of 'Coalitions of the Willing'; A.F.Cooper On the Manner of Practising the New Diplomacy; J.Heine Conclusion: National Diplomacy and Global Governance; R.Thakur