Mike Edwards offers timely answers to issues that have been propelled to center stage.

Future Positive offers a comprehensive and authoritative rethink of an international system facing a period of unprecedented change. In a world of global markets, eroding state sovereignty, expanding citizen action and uncertainty about fundamental truths, what is the best way to tackle problems of global poverty and violence?

Michael Edwards charts a "new path" between heavy-handed intervention and complete laissez-faire. Covering an enormous amount of ground in clear, lively and non-technical terms, Future Positive explains how the international system operates, the pressures it faces, and the changes it must undergo, and offers concrete new ideas to re-frame international relations and foreign aid.