Furendal, Markus & M. Lundgren | 2026
Handbook on the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Global governance is conceptualized, in this Handbook, as the formal and informal arrangements—institutions, norms, networks, and practices—through which collective action is organized beyond the nation state. Artificial intelligence (AI), in turn, is defined broadly as computational systems capable of tasks that typically require human intelligence. The object of study for the authors in this Handbook is the evolving constellation of efforts to shape the development, deployment, and consequences of AI through cross-border cooperation and regulation. The book collects contributions aiming to better understand and explain the global governance of AI (GGAI), and brings together empirical chapters that focus on the task of uncovering, analyzing, and explaining existing governance structures related to AI, and normative chapters that rely on ethical and philosophical theories and methods to assess them. In this introductory chapter, the editors situate the Handbook in relation to existing scholarship on GGAI, and summarize each of the remaining 23 chapters.
