Marjorie Lister is Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Political European and Development Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. She formerly taught at the Universities of York and Manchester in the UK, and at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Maurizio Carbone is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK. He formerly worked for the European Commission in Brussels.

• Contents: Introduction: Integrating gender and civil society into European Union development policy, Maurizio Carbone and Marjorie R. Lister. Part 1 Gender: Gender and European Union development policy, Marjorie R. Lister; Gender in ACP-EU relations: the Cotonou Agreement, Karin Arts; Gender equality and EU development policy towards Latin America, Gloria Angulo and Christian Freres; Gender in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, Jan Orbie; Gender in European Union development initiatives in Asia, Carolyn I. Sobritchea; Gender mainstreaming in EU external relations: Lessons from the Eastern enlargement, Charlotte Bretherton. Part 2 Civil Society: Civil society and European Union development policy, Stephen R. Hurt; Mainstreaming civil society in ACP-EU development cooperation, Jean Bossuyt; The European Union and strengthening civil society in Africa, Gordon Crawford; EU-Mercosur relations: the challenges of civil society cooperation, Paraskevi Bessa-Rodrigues; Civil society cooperation between the EU and its Southern Mediterranean neighbours, Ulrike Julia Reinhardt; EU-Asia relations: the role of civil society in the ASEM process, Sebastian Bersick; European NGOs in EU development policy: Between frustration and resistance, Maurizio Carbone; Index.