The essays in this volume, initially prepared for a conference at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995, deal with the future of the United Nations in the context of globalization. For a published set of conference papers, the thematic structure of the volume holds up remarkably well, and the individual contributions are of a consistently high quality. Christian Reus-Smit's introductory chapter displays a firm grasp of history, charting the changing patterns of global governance throughout the centuries. The security dimensions of global governance are covered in the second section of the book. The most interesting chapters in this section are on changing conceptions of …