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

part |107 pages

Documentation, data sets and sources

chapter |14 pages

International organizations

Available information and documentation

chapter |13 pages

The INGO research agenda

A community approach to challenges in method and theory

chapter |14 pages

Globalized public opinion data

International comparative surveys and regional barometers

chapter |13 pages

Between independence and accountability

Exploring the legal autonomy of international organizations

part |70 pages

International secretariats as bureaucracies

part |89 pages

Processes within international bureaucracies

part |83 pages

Challenges to international organizations

part |65 pages

Expanding international architectures

chapter |13 pages

The global trade architecture

An expanding agenda in times of fragmentation

chapter |12 pages

Multilateralism under transformation

International organizations and ‘clubs'