Abstract
This interesting and well-written book describes the evolution of challenges to the long dominant neoliberal global economic order. The authors begin with a useful review of the evolution of the world system, focusing on various strains that have been created by the dominant neoliberal logic of private ownership and market deregulation. As crises in areas of human and labor rights, environmental quality and food and water supplies, among others, have multiplied, the importance of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and a host of others has grown as well. Yet the most rapid growth curve in this world system belongs to transnational organizations that advocate (generally progressive) solutions for these problems, and often challenge the values of the system itself. What is most convincing about the book is that it documents ways in which the international governance system has offered more opportunities for challengers to participate. In particular, three claims are presented at the outset and developed throughout the book:
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