Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-226) and index.

J.F. Rischard, vice-president for Europe of the World Bank, offers his suggestions for solving twenty of the most urgent global problems of the 21st-century. It's Not Globalization, Stupid -- Two Big Forces -- Stretching the Planet to the Limit: The Demographic Explosion -- Doing Everything Differently: The New World Economy and the Two Revolutions Behind It -- Why the New World Economy Is So Radically Different -- The Opportunities and Stresses of the New World Economy -- A Crisis of Complexity? -- Three New Realities -- High Noon--for Twenty Urgent Global Issues -- A Dangerous Gap -- A Bad Feeling in Your Stomach: Unsolved Global Issues -- Twenty Global Issues, Twenty Years to Solve Them -- Inherently Global Issues -- Sharing Our Planet: Issues Involving the Global Commons -- Sharing Our Humanity: Issues Requiring a Global Commitment -- Sharing Our Rule Book: Issues Needing a Global Regulatory Approach -- Thinking Aloud--New Approaches to Global Problem-Solving -- No Pilot in the Cockpit -- Current Ways of Handling Global Issues Aren't Up to the Job -- No Chance for a World Government -- Pointers Towards Solutions: Networked Governance -- Global Issues Networks -- Good Things About Global Issues Networks -- Controversial Aspects -- Stepping Back: Other Solutions Besides Global Issues Networks -- Conclusion: Imagination and a Different Type of Thinking.