I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a number of books including Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities for Preventing Deadly Conflict and State Collapse (2005) and Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice (2008) and editor of Imbalance of Power: US Hegemony and International Order (2009) and Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques (2005). He is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for Conflict Management. The late Saadia Touval, former Professor and Dean at Tel Aviv University, taught at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies from 1994 to 2007. He was the author of a number of books including The Peace Brokers: Mediators in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1948–1979 (1982) and Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars (2001).

• Acknowledgments; About the authors; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction: return to the theories of cooperation I. William Zartman and Saadia Touval; Part I. Multilateral Meanings of Cooperation: 2. Debating cooperation among states: from Grotius to Adam Smith Alexis Keller; 3. The two sides of multilateralism Charles Doran; 4. Multilateralism and the challenges of global governance Fen Osler Hampson; 5. Negotiated cooperation and its alternatives Saadia Touval; Part II. Multiple Strategies of Cooperation: 6. Negotiated cooperation: synthesizing rationalist and constructivist perspectives P. Terrence Hopmann; 7. Prejudice and the shadow of the past in the emergence of cooperation Allison Stanger; 8. The chicken game in international bargaining Joshua Goldstein; 9. Cooperation and conflict management I. William Zartman; 10. Status concerns in multilateral cooperation Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko; 11. Asymmetric cooperation on economic assistance Jean-Claude Barthélemy; 12. Conclusion: improving knowledge of cooperation Saadia Touval and I. William Zartman; Bibliography.