| | | Introduction by Dimitris Bourantonis and Kostas Ifantis and Panayotis Tsakonas | | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | | Multilateralism and security : concepts, issues and strategies | | 19 |
| 1 | | State power and international institutions : America and the logic of economic and security multilateralism by G. John Ikenberry | | 21 |
| 2 | | Unipolar empire and principled multilateralism as strategies for international change by Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri | | 43 |
| 3 | | US military commitments : multilateralism and treaties by Lisa L. Martin | | 60 |
| 4 | | The crisis of the transatlantic security community by Thomas Risse | | 78 |
| 5 | | State attributes and system properties : security multilateralism in central Asia, southeast Asia, the Atlantic and Europe by James Sperling | | 101 |
| 6 | | Is multilateralism bad for humanitarianism? by Michael Barnett | | 136 |
| 7 | | Horizontal and vertical multilateralism and the liberal peace by Oliver Richmond | | 163 |
| Pt. II | | Assessing multilateral security institutions | | 181 |
| 8 | | Transatlantic relations, multilateralism and the transformation of NATO by Frank Schimmelfennig | | 183 |
| 9 | | Persuasion and norm promotion : international institutions in the western Balkans by Geoffrey Edwards and Mladen Tosic | | 202 |
| 10 | | From "perverse" to "promising" institutionalism? : NATO, EU and the Greek-Turkish conflict by Panayotis Tsakonas | | 223 |
| 11 | | Evaluating multilateral interventions in civil wars : a comparison of UN and non-UN peace operations by Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl | | 252 |
| 12 | | Why no UN Security Council reform? : lessons for and from institutionalist theory by Erik Voeten | | 288 |
| 13 | | The reform and efficiency of the UN Security Council : a veto players analysis by Aris Alexopoulos and Dimitris Bourbantonis | | 306 |
| | | References | | 324 |
| | | Index | | 359 |