MERCURY E-paper No.3 February 2010 The Evolving ‘Doctrine’ of Multilateralism in the 21st Century MERCURY is fnancially supported by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme www.mercury-fp7.net Elena Lazarou, Geoffrey Edwards, Christopher Hill and Julie Smith Series editors: John Peterson, University of Edinburgh (john@peterberg.org) Gunilla Herolf, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (herolf@sipri.org) Nadia Klein, University of Cologne (nadia.klein@uni-koeln.de) Wolfgang Wessels, University of Cologne (wessels@uni-koeln.de)