Information and communication technologies (ICT) enable citizens to communicate across state borders with greater ease than ever before, exciting much speculation about the emergence of transnational public spheres. This highly original work introduces this debate to International Relations.

Introducing Transnational Public Spheres to International Relations * Reconstructing Habermasian Public Sphere Theory * Contending Theories of Transnational Public Spheres: Propositions for an Alternative Analytical Framework * The Information Age: Transborder Communicative Capacity * The Rise of Global Governance: Transformations in Sites of Political Authority * Global Civil Society: Transnational Networks of Mutual Affinity

Angela Crack is Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.