Contents: New Directions in global political governance: challenges and responses, John J. Kirton and Junichi Takase. The Globalization Challenge and the G8’s Okinawa Response: The G8 summit and global governance: the message of Okinawa, Nicholas Bayne; The Okinawa summit’s contribution to global order: vision and realization, Kaoru Ishikawa; New directions for the G8: Okinawa’s prospects and performance, John J. Kirton; Globalization and the role of the summits, Shinichiro Uda. Japan’s Okinawa Summit and Approach to Twenty-First Century World Order: The G8 summit in global and local perspective: process, meeting, and Japanese domestic politics, Yuichi Morii; Okinawan and Japanese perspectives on U.S. military bases and the G8 summit, Takayoshi Egami; The changing G8 summit and Japanese foreign policy, Junichi Takase. New Directions in Global Security Governance: Curbing nuclear proliferation: Japanese, G8, and global approaches, Mitsuru Kurosawa; Nuclear safety and criticality at Tokaimura: a failure of governance, Michael W. Donnelly; The G8 and the human security agenda, Steven L. Lamy. New Directions in Global Institutional Governance: The G8, the United Nations, and global security governance, John J. Kirton; Partners in adversaries? the G7/8 encounters civil society, Peter I. Hajnal; Safeguarding environmental values and social cohesion under trade liberalization: global governance, G8 action, and local initiatives, Christine Lucyk and John J. Kirton; The roots of the new consensus: the United States and the transformation of the G8 system, Gina Stephens. Conclusion: Global political governance and the G8 in the twenty-first century, John J. Kirton and Junichi Takase; Analytical appendices; Documentary appendices; Bibliography; Index.