The Europa Directory of International Organizations (15th edition)

摘要

The latest edition of this weighty annual (which has grown by 10 per cent since the 2010 volume) provides information, corrected to June 2013, on 2,600 international organizations at varying levels of detail, according to their importance or complexity. It is divided into five parts of markedly unequal length. Part 1 provides some general articles giving a short historical account of the development of international organizations; a chronology from 1863 to 2013; and assessments of the present situation of international organizations in, respectively, the fields of security, economic development, humanitarian co-operation, environmental policy and criminal justice. It makes a distinction between intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations (though a few admit members of both varieties.) The former category would include the best-known and most important bodies (for instance the United Nations [UN] or the European Union [EU]) but the latter are more numerous.