Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics.

The two books under review approach the matter of conflict resolution in the twenty-first century in quite different ways. Taken together, they demonstrate the wide range of challenges and opportunities facing the world's statesmen in the evolving international system. Thomas Princen's Intermediaries in International Conflict accepts this system much as it is today and makes a number of original contributions to the understanding of the dilemmas facing mediators and those who accept their services. In contrast, James Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel's Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics provides contrasting perspectives on a far broader subject: international governance. Ten scholars, who have met periodically over four years to delineate with greater precision the shape of the coming multicentric world, present their diverse ways of approaching this important - and elusive - subject.

The Rosenau-Czempiel volume considers the most difficult question facing scholars of international politics: What will be the likely contours of the post-cold War world? Five of the papers in Governance Without Government consider how different the world will be from the present system; others are more empirically grounded, comparing three or more cases of incipient or established governance as lessons for the future. Most of the authors believe that the international system is undergoing a transfor...

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