ABSTRACT
This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are discussed where relevant. The handbook is divided into six parts:
- Documentation, Data Sets and Sources
- International Secretariats as Bureaucracies
- Actors within International Bureaucracies
- Processes within International Bureaucracies
- Challenges to International Organizations, and
- Expanding International Architectures.
The state-of-the-art articles are meant to encourage current and future generations of scholars to enjoy working in and further exploiting the field and are also of great interest to practitioners of international organization and global governance
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |107 pages
Documentation, data sets and sources
chapter |14 pages
Globalized public opinion data
chapter |12 pages
What does transnational history tell us about a world with international organizations?
chapter |13 pages
Between independence and accountability
part |70 pages
International secretariats as bureaucracies
chapter |13 pages
Problem solving by international bureaucracies
chapter |13 pages
International organizations and their bureaucratic oversight mechanisms
part |81 pages
Actors within international bureaucracies
chapter |13 pages
Secretaries-General of international organizations
part |89 pages
Processes within international bureaucracies
chapter |12 pages
What is happening to the staff of the European institutions?
part |83 pages
Challenges to international organizations
chapter |14 pages
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
chapter |13 pages
Public–private voluntary initiatives
chapter |15 pages
The politics of inter-regionalism
part |65 pages
Expanding international architectures