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The last relatively complete compendium of the electrostatics of soft matter, edited by C. Holm, P. Kekicheff, and R. Podgornik, saw the light of day in the distant 2001, immediately following the Les Houches Ecole de Physique NATO Advanced Study Institute’s school on “Electrostatic effects in soft matter and biophysics,” which itself grew out of a workshop organized by W. Gelbart, VA Parsegian, and P. Pincus at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Santa Barbara, USA, in 1998 with a similar theme. The destiny of the present volume had a similar time course: from an idea at the 2008 KITP workshop “Theory and Practice of Fluctuation-Induced Interactions,” organized by T. Emig, M. Kardar, VA Parsegian and R. Zandi, to the CECAM workshop “New Challenges in Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter,” organized by the editors of this volume, at the University of Toulouse III, France, in 2012. Since …