Dr B. Reinalda (Bob)

Bob Reinalda is a Fellow and Senior Researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. He was trained at the University of Amsterdam as a Political Scientist, focusing on International Relations, and a Social Historian.

Bob Reinalda has published about autonomous policy making of, decision making within and implementation by international organizations (IOs), both intergovernmental and non-governmental. He has published the 'Routledge History of International Organizations: From 1815 to the Present Day' (2009) and has edited the 'Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors' (2011) and the 'Routledge Handbook of International Organization' (2013).

His present research focuses on the Development of International Secretariats and Leadership by Executive Heads of IOs; Methods of Investigation of IOs (University of Geneva, see https://unige.ch/run2018/); and IOs in the Age of Empire (Cambridge History of International Law).

Bob Reinalda is a Co-Editor of IO BIO, 'The Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations' (see www.ru.nl/fm/iobio) and the 'Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland' BWSA (see https://socialhistory.org/bwsa/).

He is an Editorial Board Member of JIOS, 'Journal of International Organization Studies', ERIS, 'European Review of International Studies' (for IOs), JPSE, Journal of Political Science Education and 'Brood en rozen' (AMSAB, Ghent, see http://www.amsab.be/en/). He is Co-Editor of the book series 'The World of Political Science' and an Executive Committee Member of IPSA Research Committee 33 on the Study of Political Science as a Discipline (see http://www.ipsa.org/research-committees/rclist/RC33).