Routledge Handbook of International Organization

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).

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Contributors

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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

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