Riccardo Alcaro is Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy. He was the Coordinator of the EU 7th Framework Programme-funded Transworld project on transatlantic relations and global governance. He is a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS).   John Peterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His recent works include The European Union: How Does it Work?  (co-edited with D. Kenealy and R. Corbett, 2015); Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics (co-authored with A. Young, 2014; and Multilateralism in the 21st Century (co-edited with C. Bouchard and N. Tocci, 2014).   Ettore Greco is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, and head of its transatlantic program. He is the author of a number of publications on the EU »s institutions and foreign policy, transatlantic relations and the Balkans. He has been a free-lance journalist since 1988.