dr. B. Reinalda (Bob)
Fellow - Internationale Betrekkingen
Bob Reinalda is Fellow at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. He was trained at the University of Amsterdam as a Political Scientist, focusing on International Relations, and as a Social Historian, focusing on social movements. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1981).
With Marieke Louis (Sciences Po Grenoble/Centre Marc Bloch Berlin) Reinalda has updated his 'Routledge Handbook of International Organization' (2013). The second edition, published in December 2024 as hardback and eBook, is fully revised and enlarged (46 chapters, with Nijmegen contributions by Bertjan Verbeek and Anna van der Vleuten).
Reinalda is an Editor of the international research project, called IO BIO, 'The Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations' (see www.ru.nl/fm/iobio), together with Kent Kille (College of Wooster, Ohio, US) and Jaci Eisenberg (Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland). The project, with some 70 contributors, will soon publish its hundredth entry.
Reinalda’s research focuses on leadership by Executive Heads of IOs and the development of international secretariats of IOs and multilateral conferences. His book 'International Secretariats: Two Centuries of International Civil Servants and Secretariats' was published by Routledge in its Global Institutions Series (2020). He authored the article ‘Institutional Development of the United Nations Secretariat’ in the special issue for the 75th anniversary of the UN in the journal ‘Global Governance’ (June 2020, 26/2) and the article ‘Secretariats of Intergovernmental Organizations and Multilateralism under Pressure’ in the book edited by Auriane Guilbaud et al., ‘Crisis of Multilateralism? Challenges and Resilience’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). He authored two articles on the history of IOs, in ‘Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies’ and ‘Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method’ (2023).