1. Introduction : the EU presence in international organizations / Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis
2. EU contribution to and cooperation with multilateral organizations / Emil J. Kirchner
3. The European Union and NATO : subordinate partner, cooperative pillar, competing pole? / James Sperling
4. The EU as a security actor : in and with the UN and NATO / Hanna Ojanen
5. The big three and the High Representative : dilemmas of leadership inside and outside the EU / Christopher Hill
6. The EU, the US and international organizations : trade politics in the global political economy / Michael Smith
7. Effective multilateralism on trial : EU compliance with WTO law / Alasdair R. Young
8. The European Commission in the WTO's DDA negotiations : a tale of an agent, a single undertaking, and twenty-seven nervous principals / Bart Kerremans
9. The Commonwealth and the European Union : a multilateralism of international institutions / Paul Taylor
10. Conclusions / Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis.