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Lucile Maertens

Associate Professor, International Relations/Political Science
Co-Director, Global Governance Centre
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Spoken languages
French, English, Spanish
Theme
  • Global Governance
  • Sustainability and SDGs
  • Environment and the Anthropocene
  • Development and Cooperation
Geographical Area
  • Caribbean

Profile
 

Lucile Maertens is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute, co-director of the Global Governance Centre and scientific collaborator at the University of Lausanne. Her current research focuses on international organisations, multilateral practices, global environmental governance and issues of temporality and (de)politicisation. 

She is finalising a three-year SNFS research project on agenda-keeping in times of crisis investigating how UN actors maintained political attention on the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recently co-authored Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World (Routledge, 2021) and La dépolitisation du monde (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2024), and co-edited International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction (University of Michigan Press, 2023).

 

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

  • International organizations and multilateralism: Discourses and practices of international organizations, United Nations, Security Council
  • Global environmental politics: Global environmental governance, climate change, climate negotiations, political ecology
  • Critical security studies: Securitization, international security, environmental security
  • Qualitative research methods: Ethnographic methods, interviews, discourse analysis

     

Publications
 

Articles

  • Alejandro, Audrey, Lucile Maertens, Zoé Cheli, Augustin Fragnière, and Oriane Sarrasin. 2024. “Designing Role-Play Simulations for Climate Change Decision-Making: A Step-by-Step Approach to Facilitate Cooperation between Science and Policy.” Environmental Science & Policy 152: 103650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103650.
  • Alejandro, Audrey, Lucile Maertens, Zoé Cheli, and Augustin Fragnière. 2024. “Role-Play Simulations for Decision Making in Contexts of Uncertainty: Challenges and Strategies When Engaging Elites as Participants.” PS: Political Science & Politics 57(3):378-383. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523001166
  • Maertens, Lucile and Zoé Cheli. 2024. "Student-designed simulation: Teaching global governance in practice through a student-led role-play for practitioners", International Studies Perspectives 25(4) : 427–447. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekad022
  • Ide, Tobias, McKenzie F. Johnson, Jon Barnett, Florian Krampe, Philippe Le Billon, Lucile Maertens, Nina von Uexkull, and Irene Vélez-Torres. 2023. "The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research", Environmental Politics, vol. 32, n°6: 1077-1103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2156174
  • Maertens, Lucile, Kimber, Leah R. Kimber, Fanny Badache and Émilie Dairon. 2021. "Time and Space in the Study of International Organizations: An Introduction", Global Policy, vol. 12, n°S7: 5-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13022
  • Kimber, Leah R. and Lucile Maertens. 2021. "Experiencing Time and Space within the United Nations", Global Policy, vol. 12, n°S7: 14-23. (equal authors) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13005
  • Aykut, Stefan C. and Lucile Maertens. 2021. "The Climatization of Global Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue", International Politics, vol. 58, n°4: 640-660. (equal authors) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-021-00325-0
  • Maertens, Lucile. 2021. "Climatizing the UN Security Council", International Politics, vol. 58, n°4: 640-660. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1579648
  • Estève, Adrien and Lucile Maertens, "Introduction. Environnement, climat, défense et sécurité : un agenda en transformation", Les Champs de Mars, n°35: 11-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/lcdm.035.0011

Books

  • Louis, Marieke and Lucile Maertens. 2024. La dépolitisation du monde, Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. (Available in open access).
  • Badache, Fanny, Leah Kimber and Lucile Maertens (eds.). 2023. International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press (Available in open access).
  • Aykut, Stefan C. and Lucile Maertens (eds.). 2023. The Climatization of Global Politics. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17895-5 

  • Louis, Marieke and Lucile Maertens. 2021. Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World, New York, Routledge. (Available in open access).

     

GRANTS

  • 2023-2026: Promoting sustainability in the UN Security Council: The role of Switzerland as an elected member – co-principal investigator with Dr. Sara Hellmüller for a three-year project funded by the Fondation pour l’UNIL (169’000 CHF)
  • 2022-2025: First things first! How to keep the United Nations environmental agenda in times of crisis – PI for a three-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Subside n°100017_200834 / 1, 356’000 CHF)

 

AWARDS

  • 2023: Nomination to join AcademiaNet – the expert database for outstanding female academics. Profile available here.
  • 2022: Social Science Monograph of the Year, Routledge book awards, for Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World (2021, co-authored with Marieke Louis)

 

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