In the study of international organizations (IOs), time and space have mostly been approached as contextual, even implicit and unrelated, factors. Instead this special issue considers them as co-constitutive of multilateralism and investigates three main questions: (i) How are IOs influenced by time and space? (ii) How are time and space experienced within IOs? (iii) How do IOs influence time and space around them? This introductory article compiles the contributions’ findings and points to a cyclical process: IOs are influenced by the spatiotemporal conditions of their enactment, leading to a diversity of practices and experiences within these organizations which in turn impact time and space, both in the way they are conceptualized and in their concrete embodiment. The special issue has proven the merit of taking time and space seriously in the study of IOs. This article concludes with a series of (non-exhaustive) research avenues to continue this promising analytical and empirical endeavor, including discussions on the relationship between IO performance and time and space, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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国际组织研究中的时空：导论

在对国际组织 (IO) 的研究中，时间和空间大多被视为上下文因素，甚至是隐含的和不相关的因素。相反，本期特刊将它们视为多边主义的共同组成部分，并研究了三个主要问题：(i) IO 如何受到时间和空间的影响？(ii) 信息组织内的时间和空间体验如何？(iii) IO 如何影响他们周围的时间和空间？这篇介绍性文章汇总了贡献的发现并指出了一个周期性过程：IO 受到其制定的时空条件的影响，导致这些组织内的实践和经验多样化，进而影响时间和空间，无论是在他们的方式被概念化并在其具体体现中。特刊证明了在研究 IO 时认真对待时间和空间的优点。本文最后以一系列（非详尽的）研究途径来继续这一有希望的分析和实证工作，包括讨论 IO 性能与时间和空间之间的关系，以及 COVID-19 大流行的影响。