2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of International Organization
This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization 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 international organization (IO) as a process and multilateral organizations as institutions. The 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. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of International Organizations, 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
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).
