* Comprehensive coverage rendering it suitable for teaching on all international organization and global governance courses
* Takes the idea of global governance seriously and places the role of international organizations (and other actors) appropriately therein
* High profile and diverse line up of established and emeging scholars as contributors
* Combines an exhaustive set of mainstream, seminal and cutting-edge scholarship with a critical perspective on the dynamics of IOs and global governance, as well as substantive issue area coverage.
* The critical perspective it adopts is a particular strength, and it raises normative issues related to power, inequality and justice throughout which many textbooks skip over.
* The editors engage important issue areas which are often overlooked in mainstream IR, including private military and security companies, as well as transnational criminal networks.
* The textbook provides plenty of inspiration for self-guided study and possible final year dissertation projects etc.
* Offers balance among various schools of thought - such as rational choice, constructivism, and Marxism.