Introduction / Tereza Novotná, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Frederik Ponjaert and Mario Telò -- Theoretical and historical context -- Multipolarity and the transatlantic trade and investment partnership / Andrew Gamble -- Counter-multilateralism / Robert O. Keohane and Julia Morse -- Transatlantic partnership and global governance from the EU's perspective / Mario Telò -- Negotiations, actors and agencies -- Between "NATO for trade" and "pride in angst" : the German TTIP debate and its spill-over into wider transatlantic concerns / Hartmut Mayer -- EU institutions, member states and TTIP negotiations : the balance of power and EU foreign policy / Tereza Novotná -- Business interests and the transatlantic trade and investment partnership / Andreas Dür and Lisa Lechner -- Implications of TTIP for transnational social movements and international NGos / Michael Strange -- Knock-on effects and unintended consequences for third parties -- An open door? : TTIP and accession by third countries / Vinod K. Aggarwal and Simon J. Evenett -- The EU and the US at the WTO / Erick Duchesne and Richard Ouellet -- China's perspective : the perception of TTIP by an emerging third party / Zhang Xiaotong -- From noodle bowls to alphabet soup : the interactions between TTIP, TPP and the Japan-EU free trade agreement / Frederik Ponjaert -- Impact on multilateral institutions and regime complexes -- Let's stick together : the TTIP, the WTO and WTO 2.0 / Petros C. Mavroidis -- Wto oversight over bilateral agreements: from a notification to an examination process? / Jens L. Mortensen -- No agreement is an Island : negotiating TTIP in a dense regime complex / Sophie Meunier and Jean-Frédéric Morin -- Taking the preferences out of preferential trade agreements : TTIP as a provider of public goods? / Joost Pauwelyn.