This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization (IO) as a dynamic field of research that adds to our understanding of global and regional relations and related domestic politics. Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, it considers both IO as a process and multilateral organizations as institutions. This handbook is divided into five parts:
I. Documentation, sources and perspectives
II. International secretariats as bureaucracies
III. Actors within and beyond international bureaucracies
IV. Processes within and beyond international bureaucracies
V. Challenges to international organizations
Containing new chapters on topics such as the anthropological perspective, IO secretariats in several continents outside of Europe, feminization, the digital turn and challenges to IO legitimacy, the contributors reflect on the progression of IO studies from a burgeoning field to a well‑established subfield of international relations and the move away from scholarship based mainly in North‑Western Europe and the United States. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of IOs, global governance, diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as practitioners of multilateral cooperation.
List of figures and tables Contributors Abbreviations 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
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).
Reviews for Routledge Handbook of International Organization
'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
