11. Introduction: the purpose, design and effects of preferential trade agreements Andreas Dür and Manfred Elsig; Part I. Why Do Countries Sign PTAs?: 2. Technology, politics and economic exchanges: historical patterns in international economic agreements Moonhawk Kim; 3. The political economy of preferential trade agreements Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner; 4. Weak governments and preferential trade agreements Jean-Louis Arcand, Marcelo Olarreaga and Laura Zoratto; 5. Natural trading partners? A public opinion perspective on preferential trade agreements Víctor Umaña, Thomas Bernauer and Gabriele Spilker; 6. Regionalisation in search of regionalism: production networks and deep integration commitments in Asia's PTAs Soo Yeon Kim; Part II. The Design of PTAs: 7. Imitation and innovation in international governance: the diffusion of trade agreement design Leonardo Baccini, Andreas Dür and Yoram Z. Haftel; 8. PTA design, tariffs, and intra-industry trade Mark Manger; 9. PTAs and audiovisual services Kerry A. Chase; 10. Competition policy and free trade: antitrust provisions in PTAs Anu Bradford and Tim Büthe; 11. PTAs and public procurement Stephanie J. Rickard; 12. Trade agreements, violent conflict and security Yoram Z. Haftel; 13. Dispute settlement provisions in PTAs: new data and new concepts Todd Allee and Manfred Elsig; Part III. The Effects of PTAs: 14. Preliminary examination of heterogeneous effects on international trade of economic integration agreements Scott L. Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand and Matthew W. Clance; 15. Effects of deep versus shallow trade agreements in general equilibrium Peter Egger and Sergey Nigai; 16. Revisiting the trade effects of services agreements Anirudh Shingal; 17. Trade agreements as protection from risk Jeffrey Kucik; 18. What do we know about preferential trade agreements and temporary trade barriers? Chad P. Bown, Baybars Karacaovali and Patricia Tovar; Part IV. PTAs and the Multilateral Trading System: 19. The dialectical relationship of preferential and multilateral trade agreements Thomas Cottier, Charlotte Sieber-Gasser and Gabriela Wermelinger; 20. Forget about the WTO: the network of relations between PTAs and 'double PTAs' Joost Pauwelyn and Wolfgang Alschner; 21. Plurilateral agreements, variable geometry and the WTO Bernard Hoekman; 22. Referring PTA disputes to the WTO dispute settlement system James Flett.