Alnoor Ebrahim is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning facing nonprofit and civil society organizations. He is also affiliated with Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Edward Weisband holds the Diggs Endowed Chair Professorship in the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

• Introduction: 1. Forging global accountabilities Edward Weisband and Alnoor Ebrahim; Part I. Public Accountability: Participatory Spheres from Global to Local: 2. Multilateralism and building stronger international institutions Ngaire Woods; 3. Global financial governance and the problem of accountability: the role of the public sphere Randall D. Germain; 4. Citizen activism and public accountability: lessons from case studies in India Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins; Part II. Experiments in Forging NGO Accountability: Mutuality and Context: 5. Multiparty social action and mutual accountability L. David Brown; 6. Not accountable to anyone? Collective action and the role of NGOs in the campaign to ban 'blood diamonds' Ian Smillie; 7. Bringing in society, culture and politics: values and accountability in a Bangladeshi NGO David Lewis; Part III. Reflective Accountability: New Directions for Participatory Practice: 8. A rights-based approach to accountability Lisa Jordan; 9. Evaluation and accountability in emergency relief Coralie Bryant; 10. Towards a reflective accountability in NGOs Alnoor Ebrahim; Part IV. Global Accountability Frameworks and Corporate Social Responsibility: 11. Financial actors and instruments in the construction of global corporate social responsibility Michael R. MacLeod; 12. Public accountability within transnational supply chains: a global agenda for empowering southern workers? Kate Macdonald; 13. Tripartite multilateralism: why corporate social responsibility is not accountability Edward Weisband; Conclusion: 14. Prolegomena to a postmodern public ethics: images of accountability in global frames Edward Weisband.

'This book's creative critical (re)constructions of global accountabilities are extremely welcome. 'Accountability' is so ascendant in contemporary global governance, perhaps even aspiring to the kind of pivotal position once held by 'sovereignty' in Westphalian world politics. These authors show us how the new discourse can enable rather than frustrate societal betterment.' Jan Aart Scholte, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick