Lucile Maertens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucile Maertens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucile |
| FAMILY NAME | Maertens |
| SIGNATURE | MAERTENS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4744-9190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Keeping the Environment on the Agenda
When a global crisis hits, competition between policy domains heightens as priorities switch. International organizations (IOs) whose mandates are not directly concerned struggle to maintain attention to the issue they promote. Such was the case for IOs involved in global environmental governance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines discourse as one specific means used by IOs reacting to crises. It conceptualizes three discursive p…
Role-Play Simulations for Decision Making in Contexts of Uncertainty
This study explores the application of role-play simulations (RPS) in addressing complex challenges (e.g., the climate crisis) beyond traditional educational settings. Drawing from pilot simulations involving 12 scientific experts and 12 policy makers, the article identifies three key challenges in conducting RPS with elite participants and provides practical strategies for overcoming them. Namely, the article emphasizes the importance of adaptin…
The Climatization of Global Politics
Student-Designed Simulation
Building on the growing interest in role-play in international relations pedagogy, this article suggests student-designed simulation as an active learning exercise defined to help students get a nuanced understanding of the way global governance works in practice. Based on a teaching experience for graduate students at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), this article makes two contributions. First, it proposes a concrete roadmap for those w…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution
June 24 2022 The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty. Maria Ivanova. 2021. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lucile Maertens Lucile Maertens University of Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lucile Maertens University of Lausanne Online Issn: 1536-…
Introduction. Environnement, climat, défense et sécurité
International audience
Climatization of Global Politics
Why International Organizations Hate Politics
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and…
Time and space in the study of international organizations
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 compi…
Experiencing Time and Space within the United Nations
Departing from an objective understanding of time and space, this article investigates time and space together as daily individual and social experiences within the United Nations (UN) system. Focused on both staff members and civil society partners, it explores how experiences of time and space affect the way the UN functions. Based on two case studies, it first shows that time and space as they are experienced by individuals shape UN everyday p…
Climatizing the UN Security Council
Since 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has debated the security implications of climate change on several occasions. This article addresses these debates by exploring two interrelated questions: What drives the continuous efforts to place climate change on the UNSC’s agenda and to what extent do the UNSC’s debates illustrate an ongoing process of climatization? To answer these, the article draws on the concept of climatization, wh…
The climatization of global politics
Climate change now constitutes a major issue in world politics, intersecting with and shaping many other political domains, and wider patterns of social and economic life. Global climate governance is also no longer restricted to multilateral negotiations under the UN Climate Convention: it increasingly extends beyond the international climate regime to climatize other areas of global politics. This concept of climatization points to a powerful b…
Why International Organizations Hate Politics
From Blue to Green? Environmentalization and Securitization in UN Peacekeeping Practices
The cholera outbreak brought to Haiti in 2010 as a consequence of wastewater mismanagement in one of the UN Stabilisation Mission’s camps drew attention to the concrete material footprint of UN peace operations. Since the 2000s, UN peacekeeping missions have been increasingly confronted with environmental challenges. Multiple transformations in terms of norms and practices resulted from these environmental concerns. Drawing on data generated thro…
Depoliticisation as a securitising move
Created in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a normative mandate to promote the protection of the environment at the international level. However, since 1999, the organisation has been conducting field assessments in postconflict situations and addressing the role of natural resources in conflict, framing the environment as a security issue. To do so, the programme insists on its neutrality as a technical and ‘apolitical’ …
On ne fait pas de politique ! » Les pratiques de dépolitisation au PNUD et au PNUE
« On ne fait pas de politique ! » Cette revendication commune aux organisations internationales (OI) est au cœur du questionnement développé ici. L’analyse comparée entre le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) et le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE) permet, dans un premier temps, de s’interroger sur la dépolitisation, entendue ici comme une entreprise politique de technicisation produite par les OI, qui …
Ouvrir la boîte noire
International organizations (IOs) are a classic object of study in International Relations. However, if their status – tools in the hands of states, independant actors on the international scene, institutions with relative autonomy – is the subject of much debate, the research methods relevant to analyze them are rarely discussed. If participant observation is actually implemented to study IOs from within, little is said on the contributions of a…
The climatization of global politics
Climate change now constitutes a major issue in world politics, intersecting with and shaping many other political domains, and wider patterns of social and economic life. Global climate governance is also no longer restricted to multilateral negotiations under the UN Climate Convention: it increasingly extends beyond the international climate regime to climatize other areas of global politics. This concept of climatization points to a powerful b…
From Blue to Green? Environmentalization and Securitization in UN Peacekeeping Practices
The cholera outbreak brought to Haiti in 2010 as a consequence of wastewater mismanagement in one of the UN Stabilisation Mission’s camps drew attention to the concrete material footprint of UN peace operations. Since the 2000s, UN peacekeeping missions have been increasingly confronted with environmental challenges. Multiple transformations in terms of norms and practices resulted from these environmental concerns. Drawing on data generated thro…
Climatizing the UN Security Council
Since 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has debated the security implications of climate change on several occasions. This article addresses these debates by exploring two interrelated questions: What drives the continuous efforts to place climate change on the UNSC’s agenda and to what extent do the UNSC’s debates illustrate an ongoing process of climatization? To answer these, the article draws on the concept of climatization, wh…
On ne fait pas de politique ! » Les pratiques de dépolitisation au PNUD et au PNUE
« On ne fait pas de politique ! » Cette revendication commune aux organisations internationales (OI) est au cœur du questionnement développé ici. L’analyse comparée entre le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) et le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE) permet, dans un premier temps, de s’interroger sur la dépolitisation, entendue ici comme une entreprise politique de technicisation produite par les OI, qui …
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
Ouvrir la boîte noire
International organizations (IOs) are a classic object of study in International Relations. However, if their status – tools in the hands of states, independant actors on the international scene, institutions with relative autonomy – is the subject of much debate, the research methods relevant to analyze them are rarely discussed. If participant observation is actually implemented to study IOs from within, little is said on the contributions of a…
Depoliticisation as a securitising move
Created in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a normative mandate to promote the protection of the environment at the international level. However, since 1999, the organisation has been conducting field assessments in postconflict situations and addressing the role of natural resources in conflict, framing the environment as a security issue. To do so, the programme insists on its neutrality as a technical and ‘apolitical’ …
Student-Designed Simulation
Building on the growing interest in role-play in international relations pedagogy, this article suggests student-designed simulation as an active learning exercise defined to help students get a nuanced understanding of the way global governance works in practice. Based on a teaching experience for graduate students at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), this article makes two contributions. First, it proposes a concrete roadmap for those w…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
Ouvrir la boîte noire
International organizations (IOs) are a classic object of study in International Relations. However, if their status – tools in the hands of states, independant actors on the international scene, institutions with relative autonomy – is the subject of much debate, the research methods relevant to analyze them are rarely discussed. If participant observation is actually implemented to study IOs from within, little is said on the contributions of a…
On ne fait pas de politique ! » Les pratiques de dépolitisation au PNUD et au PNUE
« On ne fait pas de politique ! » Cette revendication commune aux organisations internationales (OI) est au cœur du questionnement développé ici. L’analyse comparée entre le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) et le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE) permet, dans un premier temps, de s’interroger sur la dépolitisation, entendue ici comme une entreprise politique de technicisation produite par les OI, qui …
Depoliticisation as a securitising move
Created in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a normative mandate to promote the protection of the environment at the international level. However, since 1999, the organisation has been conducting field assessments in postconflict situations and addressing the role of natural resources in conflict, framing the environment as a security issue. To do so, the programme insists on its neutrality as a technical and ‘apolitical’ …
From Blue to Green? Environmentalization and Securitization in UN Peacekeeping Practices
The cholera outbreak brought to Haiti in 2010 as a consequence of wastewater mismanagement in one of the UN Stabilisation Mission’s camps drew attention to the concrete material footprint of UN peace operations. Since the 2000s, UN peacekeeping missions have been increasingly confronted with environmental challenges. Multiple transformations in terms of norms and practices resulted from these environmental concerns. Drawing on data generated thro…
Why International Organizations Hate Politics
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and…
Time and space in the study of international organizations
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 compi…
Experiencing Time and Space within the United Nations
Departing from an objective understanding of time and space, this article investigates time and space together as daily individual and social experiences within the United Nations (UN) system. Focused on both staff members and civil society partners, it explores how experiences of time and space affect the way the UN functions. Based on two case studies, it first shows that time and space as they are experienced by individuals shape UN everyday p…
Climatizing the UN Security Council
Since 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has debated the security implications of climate change on several occasions. This article addresses these debates by exploring two interrelated questions: What drives the continuous efforts to place climate change on the UNSC’s agenda and to what extent do the UNSC’s debates illustrate an ongoing process of climatization? To answer these, the article draws on the concept of climatization, wh…
The climatization of global politics
Climate change now constitutes a major issue in world politics, intersecting with and shaping many other political domains, and wider patterns of social and economic life. Global climate governance is also no longer restricted to multilateral negotiations under the UN Climate Convention: it increasingly extends beyond the international climate regime to climatize other areas of global politics. This concept of climatization points to a powerful b…
Why International Organizations Hate Politics
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution
June 24 2022 The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty. Maria Ivanova. 2021. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lucile Maertens Lucile Maertens University of Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lucile Maertens University of Lausanne Online Issn: 1536-…
Introduction. Environnement, climat, défense et sécurité
International audience
Climatization of Global Politics
The Climatization of Global Politics
Student-Designed Simulation
Building on the growing interest in role-play in international relations pedagogy, this article suggests student-designed simulation as an active learning exercise defined to help students get a nuanced understanding of the way global governance works in practice. Based on a teaching experience for graduate students at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), this article makes two contributions. First, it proposes a concrete roadmap for those w…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
Role-Play Simulations for Decision Making in Contexts of Uncertainty
This study explores the application of role-play simulations (RPS) in addressing complex challenges (e.g., the climate crisis) beyond traditional educational settings. Drawing from pilot simulations involving 12 scientific experts and 12 policy makers, the article identifies three key challenges in conducting RPS with elite participants and provides practical strategies for overcoming them. Namely, the article emphasizes the importance of adaptin…
Keeping the Environment on the Agenda
When a global crisis hits, competition between policy domains heightens as priorities switch. International organizations (IOs) whose mandates are not directly concerned struggle to maintain attention to the issue they promote. Such was the case for IOs involved in global environmental governance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines discourse as one specific means used by IOs reacting to crises. It conceptualizes three discursive p…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)