This Festschrift for Otmar Höll elaborates on various aspects of his work on international security through the contributions of friends and colleagues. The issue of security is framed as a mediated endeavour and discussed along issues of Global Governance, conflict mediation and comprehensive approaches to foreign and security policy.

Contents: Heinz Gärtner: Otmar Höll – Alexander Klimburg/Jan Pospisil: Mediating Security: Comprehensive Approaches to an Ambiguous Subject – Sanja Tišma/Marina Funduk: Green Development: A Notion Affecting Sustainable National Economies, Environmental Security and International Relations – Kunibert Raffer: The Millennium Development Goals as a Precondition for Peace and Security – Barbara Rohregger: The Politics of Social Protection: How to Get It Onto the Political Agenda and Make Sure That It Stays There – Arno Truger: The Contribution of Development and Environmental Policy to Foreign and Security Policy – Pertti Joenniemi: Peace Mediation: The Challenge of Protracted Conflicts – Anton Pelinka: Conflict Research – Wilfried Graf/Gudrun Kramer/Augustin Nicolescou: Complexity Thinking and Basic Human Needs. Towards a Meta-Framework for Interactive Conflict Transformation – Herbert C. Kelman: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: A Perspective from Social and Political Psychology – A.J.R. Groom: Global Governance from Above and Below – Gudrun Harrer: Entrusting Without Trusting: The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Disarmament of Iraq 1991-1998 – Blerim Reka/Ylber Sela: The Soft Protectorate in the Western Balkans: International Governance for Post-Conflict Societies? – Howard J. Wiarda: Adventures in Research: The Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP).