Profile
 

PhD : Sciences Po Paris and University of Geneva (dual degree)

Prof Lucile Maertens joins the Geneva Graduate Institute’s faculty in September 2023. She was previously a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, USA, and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK. She recently co-authored Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World (2021) and co-edited International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction (2023). Her current research focuses on international organisations, multilateral practices, global environmental governance and issues of temporality and (de)politicisation.
 

Selected Publications
 

Monograph

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

Edited volumes and special issues

• Badache, Fanny, Leah Kimber and Lucile Maertens (eds.). 2023. International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press (forthcoming).
• "Time and Space in the Study of International Organizations", Global Policy, 2021, vol. 12, n°S7, with Fanny Badache, Émilie Dairon and Leah Kimber. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17585899/2021/12/S7 
• "The Climatization of Global Politics", International Politics, 2021, vol. 58, n°4, with Stefan C. Aykut. https://link.springer.com/journal/41311/volumes-and-issues/58-4 

Peer-review articles

• Ide, Tobias, McKenzie F. Johnson, Jon Barnett, Florian Krampe, Philippe Le Billon, Lucile Maertens, Nina von Uexkull, and Irene Vélez-Torres, "The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research", Environmental Politics (online first view) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2156174
• 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 
• 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
• Maertens, Lucile. 2019. "From Blue to Green? Environmentalisation and Securitisation in UN Peacekeeping Practices", International Peacekeeping, vol. 26, n°3: 302-326. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1579648
• Maertens, Lucile. 2018. "Depoliticisation as a Securitising Move. The case of the United Nations Environment Programme", European Journal of International Security, vol. 3, n°3: 344-363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2018.5

Current research project(s) and/or publication(s)

• First things first! How to keep the United Nations environmental agenda in times of crisis – a two-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Subside n°100017_200834)
• Switzerland as an elected member at the UN Security Council (2023-2024) – a three-year project co-managed with Dr Sara Hellmüller, funded by the Fondation pour l’UNIL

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