Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Saskia Sassen -- Introduction: Whose world is it? -- Part I. An unprotected world -- The return of pirates in the global era -- Humanity threatened -- Part II. The unfulfilled promise of protection -- Global rear -- A walled world -- Part III. Governing, or the art of taking charge -- The observation society -- From sovereignty to responsibility -- Climatic justice -- A politics of humanity -- Epilogue: Us and them.

When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling and largely unacknowledged consequences. The "opening" of different societies to new ideas, products, and forms of prosperity has introduced a persistent uncertainty, or disorder, into everyday life. Multinational