Common Goods in a Divided World, the title of the lecture series organized by the Netherlands Chapter of the Society of International Development (SID) and also title of this publication, underlines the necessity to safeguard common interests through institutional facilities and arrangements.

The recent financial crisis has shown the disastrous shortcomings of supervision and regulation: international security has been undermined by fragile states; the structural reform of the United Nations did not come to much; the discussion of the adaptation of the Bretton Woods system is stagnating and non-Western nations should be given a greater role in the management of interdependence and international security. In this volume, international experts, scientists, politicians and activists give their views and recommendations on these issues.