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Routledge Handbook of International Organization.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reinalda, Bob
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables and annexes; Contributors; Abbreviations; This volume; 1. International organization as a field of research since 1910; The early years of the field; A new way of thinking about cooperation between states; Realism: less and more nuanced; A new research programme: opening up the black box; Regimes and institutions, rather than organizations; The English School on institutions; Constructivism and international organizations; Multilaterism and global governance
  • NGOs, social movements and transnational advocacy networksInternational organizations as organizations: neo-institutionalism; The internal functioning of international organizations; Conclusion; References; Part I: Documentation, data sets and sources; 2. International organizations: available information and documentation; League of Nations documentation; Purpose and structure of United Nations documentation; Global issues on the UN agenda; Intergovernmental organizations in a broader context; Regional and multiregional organizations
  • International law, technical agencies, and the environmentInternational documentation in the digital era; References; 3. Data sets and quantitative research in the study of intergovernmental organizations; Correlates of War international governmental organization data set; Examples of organization-specific data sets; Future applications of quantitative data on IGOs; Notes; References; 4. Data and analyses of voting in the United Nations General Assembly; Description of United Nations voting data; Voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly
  • United Nations votes as indicators for state preferencesConclusion; Notes; References; 5. The INGO research agenda: a community approach to challenges in method and theory; Challenges of researching INGOs; Moving research forward; Conclusion; References; 6. Globalized public opinion data: international comparative surveys and regional barometers; Public opinion data in a globalized world; Development of international comparative surveys; International comparative surveys; Commercial survey; Other comparative international surveys; Conclusion; References
  • 7. What does transnational history tell us about a world with international organizations? The historians' point of viewA transnational history perspective; International organizations in transnational perspective; Assessing the Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History; The League of Nations Search Engine (LONSEA); Conclusion; Notes; References; 8. International organizations and the idea of equality; Inequality, the classical state system and its legacies; The United Nations, decolonization and the evolution of the idea of international equality