"Explores a wide range of challenges facing the international community in reforming international institutions and global governance groups. Argues for reform of global governance groups, especially reconstituting the G8, and individual institutional reforms in the IMF, World Bank, and the United Nations and in global health and environmental governance"--Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction and overview / Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes F. Linn -- International institutional reform -- IMF reform : congruence with global governance reform / Jack Boorman -- Strengthening the IMF : lessons from history / James M. Boughton -- The World Bank : toward a global club / Nancy Birdsall -- United Nations reform / Ann Florini and Carlos Pascual -- Global governance reform -- Summit reform : toward an L-20 / Johannes F. Linn and Colin I. Bradford Jr. -- The bank-fund ministerial committees / Jack Boorman and Alex Shakow -- Global health governance / Ronald Waldman -- Global environmental governance / Daniel C. Esty -- Global governance reform : conclusions and implications / Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes F. Linn -- Contributors -- Index.