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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- IO BIO: career descriptions -- International secretariats as actors -- International civil servants -- Available literature -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 1 International river commissions -- The Congress of Vienna -- The Rhine Commission -- The Danube Commission -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Public international unions -- Invention of the follow-up conference -- Multinational conferences and treaty making -- Institutionalization and permanent secretariats

This Handbook of International Organization brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations 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 architecture.

"How do non-state actors matter in international relations? This volume recognizes three types of non-state actor: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and transnational corporations. It illustrates how they play roles alongside nation-states and are interrelated in matters of international regulation and coordination"--Provided by publisher.

This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning in 1815 up to the present day.

"The History of International Organization(s)" published on by Oxford University Press.