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).

'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

• List of figures and tablesContributorsAbbreviationsThis volume1. From an international relations subfield to ‘international organization studies’Marieke Louis and Bob Reinalda2. Research methods and international organization studiesFanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile MaertensPART I: Documentation, sources and perspectives3. International organizations: Available information and documentationMichael McCaffrey and James Church4. Datasets and quantitative studies of international organizationsCharles Roger5. United Nations General Assembly voting data and analysesEric Voeten6. The INGO research agenda: Changes in approach and outcomes over the last decadeElizabeth A. Bloodgood and Hans Peter Schmitz7. Globalized public opinion data: International comparative surveys and regional barometersMarta Lagos and Min-hua Huang8. International Organizations: The international law perspectiveRichard Collins and Nigel D. White9. International organizations: The historians’ perspectiveSandrine Kott and Davide Rodogno10. International organizations: The anthropological perspectiveGiulia Scalettaris and Marion FresiaPART II: International secretariats as bureaucracies11. Revisiting international bureaucracies from a Public Administration and International Relations perspectiveJörn Ege and Michael W. Bauer12. Organization theory and the study of international bureaucracy: A comparative analysisJarle Trondal13. The dynamics of international organizations’ compositionFelicity Vabulas14. The values of staff in international organizationsSimon Hug15. Latin American secretaries-general of international organizationsDawisson Belém Lopes and João Paulo Ferraz Oliveira16. Secretariats and staff of African international organizationsUlf Engel and Jens Herpolsheimer17. Secretariats and staff of Asian international organizationsAigul Kulnazarova and Takeshi Yuzawa18. The European Union’s civil service in turbulent times: Group formation and challengesDidier GeorgakakisPart III: Actors within and beyond international bureaucracies19. Diplomats in the multilateral arenaYolanda Kemp Spies20. Multilateral diplomats from the former Eastern BlocEmilija Pundziūtė-Gallois21. Secretaries-General of international organizations: Research progress and pathwaysKent J. Kille22. The Special Representatives of the United Nations Secretary-GeneralManuel Fröhlich23. The role and power of the Chair in international organizationSpyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis24. Women and the feminization of international organizationsKirsten Haack25. Managing diversity within international organizationsFanny Badache26. United Nations staff and decolonizationEva-Maria Muschik27. Intergovernmental organizations as shadow negotiatorsMatias E. Margulis28. Peak associations in global business: Specialization among generalistsKarsten Ronit29. Mapping the engagement of religious actors within international organizationsCharles TenenbaumPART IV: Processes within and beyond international bureaucracies30. International organizations in the digital age: A critical reviewCorneliu Bjola 31. Evaluation and learning in international organizationsSteffen Eckhard32. The power, problems and politics of expertise in international organizationsAndrea Liese33. International organizations and crisis managementEva-Karin Olsson Gardell and Bertjan Verbeek34. Contestation within international organizationsMélanie Albaret35. Ideas as drivers of change in international organizationsDelphine Placidi-Frot36. The G20’s informal diplomacy and external relationsPeter Hajnal37. The politics of inter-regionalism: Relations between regional international organizationsAndrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Anna van der Vleuten38. Integration and differentiation within the European UnionSabine SauruggerPART V: Challenges to international organizations39. Managing non-human threats: From pandemics to biodiversityAuriane Guilbaud40. Alliances and security in times of aggressionOlivier Schmitt41. United Nations peacekeeping, bureaucracy and practiceVanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa42. The use, effectiveness, and unintended consequences of economic sanctions by intergovernmental organizationsDursun Peksen and Jin Mun Jeong43. Financing development: Demands from the Global South, challenges for the multilateral systemQuentin Deforge44. International organizations in the age of migrationShoshana Fine, Antoine Pécoud and Sabine Dini45. ‘Great Expectations’ for international criminal justiceJulian Fernandez and Sandrine de Sena46. Legitimacy in international organization: Concepts, findings and explanationsHans Agné and Thomas SommererIndex