global governance stands accused of being unaccountable and deaf to the world's diversity of peoples and issues. the accusation is not altogether unfounded. this chapter has described a web of governance comprising multilateral instituions ,private sector networks, interstate networks and coalitions,and bilateral and regional arrangements. it portrays a system in which the underlying power and hierarchy of states and the most powerful transnational corporations are unavoidable, even (or even especially) in the so-called technocratic , expert arrangements to which policymakers seem increasingly attracted.