International Secretariats: Two Centuries of International Civil Servants and Secretariats

ISBN-13: 9780367369323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Bob Reinalda

Opis

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).

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.