The last two decades have seen major shifts in the way international organisations (IOs)
address migration. While state sovereignty remains central in the politics of migration, IOs …

International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global
governance, contributing to what some have described as the'bureaucratization of world …

While a consensus seems to be emerging that bureaucracies of international organizations
are of growing relevance for policy-making beyond the nation-state, we still do not …

This article asks how international secretariats can sometimes expand their authority in
areas that relate neither to their mandate, nor to their sphere of expert authority. Existing …

This article offers insights into the aggregate patterns of the geographical distribution of
professional staff in some of the major international organizations (IOs). Building on the …

This paper focuses on the circulation of policy ideas within international administrations.
Based upon a study of UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, it shows how …

Exploring the “institutional pressures–policy attention–innovation performance” link is
essential for public managers to address the differentiated development between regions for …

An impressive amount of evidence has been collected underpinning the importance of
international public administrations (ie, the secretariats of international governmental …

International governmental organizations (IGOs) are defi ned in the Yearbook of
International Organizations (UIA 1992-3: 1649) as bodies that are “based on a formal …

This paper starts from the premise that international practices are neither stable nor
universal but are in fact the product of time and space. It analyzes the processes of …