The evolution of the volume and its chapters on global governance reform require some elaboration. Assembling the authors and their various perspectives on global governance reform took considerable effort, as I describe more fully at the end of this Introduction. One task, however, engendered some notable discussion among the authors and CIGI officials: identifying an appropriate title for this collection of global governance issues. At CIGI’s 2006 annual meeting, at which a number of the authors presented their papers, several had time between panels to ponder an appropriate “cap” or “umbrella” for the volume. Out of those discussions and several subsequent editorial ones, and not without some controversy, the volume carries the main title, Can the World Be Governed ?