Archives
Original version
Ravndal, E. J. (2023). Archives. In F. Badache, L. R. Kimber, & L. Maertens (Eds.), International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction (pp. 124–131). University of Michigan Press.Abstract
International organizations (IOs) have left behind an abundance of documents and other archival material. Combined with state and personal collections, these offer a rich basis for IO studies. Researchers can use archives to answer questions of institutional history—the internal developments of IOs or IOs’ role as international actors—and to examine broader processes of international history—seeing IOs as an arena for and mirror of global developments.