This paper was presented at the Manitese conference titled "From Utopia's Skies to History's Dust: Building solidarity and justice in the world," Firenze, 20-22 April 2002.Through concrete examples of threats to peace, health and economies, this paper illustrates the failure in the provision and management of public goods. It then proceeds to surface some of the critical issues and challenges in addressing the provision of global public goods. Finally, it presents a rough sketch of an alternative to global governance.
