This text provides an authoritative account of the law and politics of international organisations. Looking at the role, function and history of organisations, it offers a wide ranging and thorough analysis of the area.--

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This Oxford Handbook assembles the world's leading scholars in International Relations to present diverse perspectives about purposes, questions, theories, and methods. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.

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

Histories -- Approaches -- Regimes and doctrines -- Debates

International Organisations Have Affected All Of Us In Our Daily Lives, No Matter We Realize It Or Not. Hence, Every Enlightened Citizen Of His Own Country And Of The World Ought To Have Knowledge Of Their Role, Functioning, System, And Above All Their Relevance In The Modern World. The Loss Of Several Million Lives In The First World War Showed The Necessity For An International Organisation So As To Establish Peace In The Entire World. With This Aim The League Of Nations Later Succeeded By The United Nations Was Formed.Over The Past Few Years There Has Been A Significant Increase In The Efforts Of Developing Countries To Achieve Regional Economic Integration. In Various Parts Of The Developing World, Existing Regional Arrangements Have Been Revitalised Or Expanded And New Groupings Formed. This Book Is Not Intended As A General History Of International Organisations Because Such Histories Are Available In Much Greater Details Than That Could Be Attempted Here. It Is Rather A Description And A Brief Overview Of The United Nations System And Other Major International And Regional Organisations Of The World Like The Amnesty International, G-77, The International Criminal Court, Apec, Oecd, Opec, Nam, Nafta, The Commonwealth, Wco, Iom, Eu, Asean, Saarc, Interpol, Etc.This Book Would Be Found Most Useful By The Scholars Of Political Science, Public Administration, International Relations And Others. It Would Also Appeal To The General Readers Keen To Know About The Recent Global Developments And Strategies Adopted By The Various International Organisations Across The World.

Updated throughout, this is the third edition of Ian Hurd's lively introduction to the law and politics of international organizations.

This book brings together world experts on the United Nations and international law, to examine not only the content of that legal regime but how it has been transformed since the second half of the twentieth century.

Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy-making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending on the policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional, sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of 'local' and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent a reinvigoration of public administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the nation-state.