Andreas Dür is Professor of International Politics at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Manfred Elsig is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

1. Principals, Agents, and the European Union's Foreign Economic Policies Andreas Dür and Manfred Elsig 2. Interest Groups and the Failure of EU Anti-Dumping Reform Dirk De Bièvre and Jappe Eckhardt 3. World Trade Organisation Judicialization and Preference Convergence in EU Trade Policy: Making the Agent's Life Easier Arlo Poletti 4. The European Presence in Global Financial Governance: A Principal-Agent Perspective Daniel Mügge 5. Variation in EU Member States' Preferences and the Commission's Discretion in the Doha Round Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt 6. The European Union's Role in the G8: A Principal-Agent Perspective Arne Niemann and Judith Huigens 7. EU, US and International Accounting Standards: A Delicate Balancing Act in Governing Global Finance Patrick Leblond