Over the last decades and especially in the new millennium global society is increasingly
facing new risks and challenges on a global scale demanding global solutions. With their
articles on global risks the authors have contributed to a topic that suffers from severe
under-specification. Their contributions can be summoned up under three headings:
Identification and Assessment Normative Reflections and Alternative Modes of Governance. Each
of the assembled articles shows from very different academic perspectives how international
actors - states as well as regional and international organisations - deal with global risks
that in today's globalised world affect not only one state or region but the international
community as a whole.
