International Secretariats

Providing a comprehensive overview of two centuries of international civil servants and international secretariats, this book reveals how international secretariats have emerged and evolved, focusing on both structures (international public administrations) and the practitioners (international civil servants).

Autorentext

Bob Reinalda is a Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He published the Routledge History of International Organizations: From 1815 to the Present Day (2009) and edited the Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors (2011), as well as the Routledge Handbook of International Organization (2013). Alongside Kent J. Kille and Jaci L. Eisenberg, he is an editor of IO BIO, the Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations: www.ru.nl/fm/iobio.

Inhalt

Introduction 1 International river commissions 2 Public international unions 3 Concert of Europe conferences and private initiatives 4 War and peace: 1914-1919 5 The League of Nations and the International Labour Organization 6 Wartime international organizations 7 The United Nations System 8 Regional international organizations 9 NATO and OECD 10 International courts and tribunals 11 The United Nations Secretariat 12 Regional integration around the world 13 World conferences, sherpas, and treaty secretariats 14 Conclusion: two centuries of international civil servants and secretariats