272 14 The Contested Quest for Global Governance: Conclusions and Directions for Further Research Amitav Acharya This volume has focused on the demand for global governance – espe- cially what causes it and how and why demand – understood as hav- ing both utilitarian and social purposes – vary across time and issue areas. Using demand as the central analytic framework, we looked at the architecture, actors and progress of global governance, the latter in terms of the legitimacy, effcacy and durability of its institutions and forms. Part I of the volume dealt with some of the broad questions of struc- ture and agency in global governance from a historical and concep- tual standpoint. Deudney’s sweeping historical overview (Chapter 2) traces how the structure of global governance has shifted from verti- cal or hierarchical to more horizontal and local forms. In essence, he outlines the long-term devolution (“descent”) of global governance from empires to individuals, and from globalism to localisms. Kahler (Chapter 3) examines the evolution and modifcation of liberal norms as the basis of the postwar global governance architecture, and ques- tions the tendency to view them exclusively in terms of the power and purpose of the United States. He then examines the challenge posed by the rising powers to the liberal international order and how that order might be sustained through a process of redefnition and broadening to accommodate the rising powers. Hall (Chapter 4) ques- tions the rationalist, functionalist and economistic determinants of the demand for global governance in favor of normative and social factors. Together, these chapters expand the conceptual framework for analyz- ing the evolution, current architecture and future direction of global governance. Part II of the volume covers nine case studies: security govern- ance (Mack, Chapter 5), human rights (Sikkink, Chapter 6), atroci- ties (Thakur, Chapter 7), trade (Sell, Chapter 8), fnance (Helleiner, Chapter 9), climate (Jinnah, Chapter 10), refugees (Betts, Chapter 11), health (Fidler, Chapter 12), and cyberspace and social media (Cogburn, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316756829.014 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 31 Jan 2017 at 13:24:41, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use,