The aims of this text are two-fold: to describe and explain US behaviour in and towards a wide range of significant global and regional institutions; and secondly, to examine the impact of US behaviour on the capacity of each organization to meet its own objectives.

Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; PERSPECTIVES ON THE US AND MIOS ; 2. American exceptionalism and international organization: Lessons from the 1990s ; 3. State power and the institutional bargain: America's ambivalent economic and security multilateralism ; THE US AND GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS ; 4. US-UN relations through the prism of the UN Security Council in the post-Cold War era ; 5. The United States and the international financial institutions: power and influence within the World Bank and the IMF ; 6. The United States and the GATT/WTO system ; 7. Looking beyond the 'K-word': Embedded multilateralism in US foreign environmental policy ; THE US AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ; 8. Making Africa safer for capitalism: US policy and multilateralism in Africa ; 9. US approaches to multilateral security and economic organizations in the Asia-Pacific ; 10. Trouble in Pax Atlantica? The United States, Europe and the future of multilateralism ; 11. Power multiplied or power restrained? The US and multilateral institutions in the Americas ; 12. Conclusion - Instrumental Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy ; Select bibliography

Rosemary Foot is a Professor of International Relations and John Swire Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University S. Neil MacFarlane is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford University Michael Mastanduno is a Professor of Government and Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Darmouth College