Routledge Handbook of International Organization

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This volume

1.           From an international relations subfield to ‘international organization studies’

              Marieke Louis and Bob Reinalda

2.           Research methods and international organization studies

              Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens

PART I: Documentation, sources and perspectives

3.           International organizations: Available information and documentation

              Michael McCaffrey and James Church

4.           Datasets and quantitative studies of international organizations

              Charles Roger

5.           United Nations General Assembly voting data and analyses

              Eric Voeten

6.           The INGO research agenda: Changes in approach and outcomes over the last decade

              Elizabeth A. Bloodgood and Hans Peter Schmitz

7.           Globalized public opinion data: International comparative surveys and regional barometers

              Marta Lagos and Min-hua Huang

8.           International organizations: The international law perspective

              Richard Collins and Nigel D. White

9.           International organizations: The historians’ perspective

              Sandrine Kott and Davide Rodogno

10.         International organizations: The anthropological perspective

              Giulia Scalettaris and Marion Fresia

PART II: International secretariats as bureaucracies

11.         Revisiting international bureaucracies from a Public Administration and International Relations perspective

              Jörn Ege and Michael W. Bauer

12.         Organization theory and the study of international bureaucracy: A comparative analysis

              Jarle Trondal

13.         The dynamics of international organizations’ composition

              Felicity Vabulas

14.         The values of staff in international organizations

              Simon Hug

15.         Latin American secretaries-general of international organizations

              Dawisson Belém Lopes and João Paulo Ferraz Oliveira

16.         Secretariats and staff of African international organizations

              Ulf Engel and Jens Herpolsheimer

17.         Secretariats and staff of Asian international organizations

              Aigul Kulnazarova and Takeshi Yuzawa

18.         The European Union’s civil service in turbulent times: Group formation and challenges

              Didier Georgakakis

Part III: Actors within and beyond international bureaucracies

19.         Diplomats in the multilateral arena

              Yolanda Kemp Spies

20.         Multilateral diplomats from the former Eastern Bloc

              Emilija Pundziūtė-Gallois

21.         Secretaries-General of international organizations: Research progress and pathways

              Kent J. Kille

22.         The Special Representatives of the United Nations Secretary-General

              Manuel Fröhlich

23.         The role and power of the Chair in international organization

              Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis

24.         Women and the feminization of international organizations

              Kirsten Haack

25.         Managing diversity within international organizations

              Fanny Badache

26.         United Nations staff and decolonization

              Eva-Maria Muschik

27.         Intergovernmental organizations as shadow negotiators

              Matias E. Margulis

28.         Peak associations in global business: Specialization among generalists

              Karsten Ronit

29.         Mapping the engagement of religious actors within international organizations

              Charles Tenenbaum

PART IV: Processes within and beyond international bureaucracies

30.         International organizations in the digital age: A critical review

              Corneliu Bjola 

31.         Evaluation and learning in international organizations

              Steffen Eckhard

32.         The power, problems and politics of expertise in international organizations

              Andrea Liese

33.         International organizations and crisis management

              Eva-Karin Olsson Gardell and Bertjan Verbeek

34.         Contestation within international organizations

              Mélanie Albaret

35.         Ideas as drivers of change in international organizations

              Delphine Placidi-Frot

36.         The G20’s informal diplomacy and external relations

              Peter Hajnal

37.         The politics of inter-regionalism: Relations between regional international organizations

              Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Anna van der Vleuten

38.         Integration and differentiation within the European Union

              Sabine Saurugger

PART V: Challenges to international organizations

39.         Managing non-human threats: From pandemics to biodiversity

              Auriane Guilbaud

40.         Alliances and security in times of aggression

              Olivier Schmitt

41.         United Nations peacekeeping, bureaucracy and practice

              Vanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa

42.         The use, effectiveness, and unintended consequences of economic sanctions by intergovernmental organizations

              Dursun Peksen and Jin Mun Jeong

43.         Financing development: Demands from the Global South, challenges for the multilateral system

              Quentin Deforge

44.         International organizations in the age of migration

              Shoshana Fine, Antoine Pécoud and Sabine Dini

45.         ‘Great Expectations’ for international criminal justice

              Julian Fernandez and Sandrine de Sena

46.         Legitimacy in international organization: Concepts, findings and explanations

              Hans Agné and Thomas Sommerer

Index

Biography

Marieke Louis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Grenoble, PACTE, CNRS, France. Currently, she is also Deputy Director of the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany. She recently published Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World (Routledge, Global Institutions Series, 2021), with Lucile Maertens.

Bob Reinalda is Fellow at the Political Science Department of Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is the original editor of the handbook and has published International Secretariats: Two Centuries of International Civil Servants and Secretariats (Routledge, Global Institutions Series, 2020).

'The first edition of this handbook quickly established itself as an essential resource for students and scholars of international relations alike. With this updated and expanded edition, Bob Reinalda and Marieke Louis set the bar even higher as they address current challenges to international governance and give even more pride of place to diverse disciplinary and regional perspectives on international organization. Highly recommended.' 

Jens Steffek, Professor of Transnational Governance, TU Darmstadt, Germany

'Reinalda and Louis have contributed an essential and comprehensive Handbook of International Organization. It features contributions from a distinguished group of experts and includes a mix of essays on enduring topics as well as very timely and relevant essays. Topics covered range from crisis management and non-human threats to economic sanctions, financing, and diversity management. The work also examines international organization from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including international law, history, anthropology as well as public administration and international relations theory. Beyond this, the volume offers a broad overview of methodologies and data sources and delves deeply into the workings of international secretariats. A wonderful compilation that serves as a crucial resource for scholars, practitioners, and students of international organization alike.' 

Alynna J. Lyon, Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States