ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in the previous chapters of this book. Louise Fawcett's chapter demonstrates, regional and global governance forums are heavily reliant on certain states being willing to adopt leadership roles and bear the costs of setting and maintaining institutions. The conscious attempts by rising powers to resist the burdens of responsibility by framing themselves as developing states, noted in the chapters by Holden. Jones and Breslin's chapter is reminder that the rising powers may be more fragmented in their domestic governance arrangements, and more open to contestation over ideas and roles, than the often monolithic fashion in which they are represented in rising powers debates. The chapters in this volume provide theoretical and practical responses too many of these while recognizing that the answers are never complete, they can only form part of a larger dialectic between theory and practice and between the multitude of actors that go to make up global governance.
