Assel Tutumlu and Gaye Güngör are Assistant Professors of International Relations at Gediz University. They received their PhD degrees in Global Affairs from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (USA) and in Political Science from Florida International University, Miami (USA), respectively.

The book is about the nature of multilateralism in global governance. It presents a third generation scholarly research in inter-disciplinary fashion by analysing normative dimensions, issue-areas, such as migration and international trade, as well as the limits of multilateralism in contemporary global governance.

Contents: Gaye Güngör/Assel Tutumlu: «Why Revisit Multilateralism?» - Assel Tutumlu: «Five Democratisation Myths» - Ana Isabel Xavier: «The European Union as a (Global) Security Provider: From «Old» to «New» Regionalism?» - Anna Aseeva: «Global Trade Governance and Informal Voluntary Standards: the Socio-Normative Analysis of Legitimacy of the ISO» - Pola Cebulak: «The Tensions between Internal and External Multilateralism in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union Concerning International Agreements» - Gaye Güngör: «Global Investment Governance Architecture: the Case of UNCTAD» - Suat Öksüz: «Multilateralizing Regionalism: the Cases of the EU (+36) and ASEAN (+6)» - Zeynep Sahin Mencütek: «Refugee Governance in the Middle East and North Africa by the Arab League» - Nefise Ela Gökalp Aras: «A Bio-political Governance: The European Union's Policy on Irregular Transit Migration at the Borders» - Bülent Ugrasiz: «The Rivalry between Turkey and Iran in the Middle East Region» - Çigdem Üstün: «Global Governance and International Security Organizations: the OSCE and NATO».

The aim of this edited volume is to bring back multilateralism in global governance research by going beyond the state-centric and formal models of multilateralism of the 1990s and deeper into the informal private agents and structures of global governance. The volume is situated within the third generation scholarly research tying together disparate efforts from various disciplines, such as International Relations, Public Administration, International Law and International Political Economy under the overarching theme of multilateralism approached from the three different angles: normative dimensions of global governance, issue-areas, such as migration and international trade, as well as the limits of multilateralism.