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Alix Defrain-Meunier

Associate Research Fellow

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Duration: from 10 November 2024 to 10 October 2027

Research Interest(s): Migrations, International Organizations, multilateralism, change, civil society, NGOs

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

Language(s): French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese

Biography

Alix Defrain-Meunier obtained her PhD in Political Science (specialization in International Relations) from Sciences Po in 2024. Since then, she has been an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po). 

Her thesis, titled "The International Organization for Migration (IOM): From a Provisional Committee to a UN-Related Organization. An Analysis of Change in an International Organization," was conducted under the supervision of Guillaume Devin. 

Her research focuses on migration issues and the role of International Organizations in migration governance. More broadly, she is interested in changes within/ of International Organizations and transformations of multilateralism. Her studies have notably explored the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion of non-state actors in multilateral fora, with a particular focus on the NGO accreditation process at the UN (see her book published by Éditions L’Harmattan in 2019). 

As a member of the Multilateral Action Research Group (GRAM), Alix Defrain-Meunier co-leads the “Multilateral Diplomacy and International Organizations” section of the Multilateralism and International Organizations Observatory. She is also a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations (IC Migrations).

Thesis topic

L'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) : d’un comité provisoire à une organisation apparentée à l'Organisation des Nations unies. Analyse du changement d'une organisation internationale, supervised by Guillaume Devin

Teaching

Teaching Assistant :
• Espace mondial (Bachelor level).
• Carrots And Sticks: Humanitarian And Political Diplomacy In Action (Master level, PSIA).
• Nothing Will Be The Same Again: Diplomacy Disrupted (Summer Session, Master level, MAGS, PSIA).

Teacher :
• Espace mondial (Bachelor level).
• Introduction à la science politique (Bachelor level).

publications

DEFRAIN-MEUNIER Alix, « L’enjeu de l’inclusion au Comité chargé des ONG à l’ONU », in KIELE, Eberhard, KLÖCK, Carola, ESTÈVE, Adrien, DIECKHOFF, Alain (dir.), Un mondes en crises, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2023.

Contribution à l'écriture de la troisième édition de DEVIN Guillaume, Les organisations internationales. Entre intégration et différenciation, Paris : Armand Colin, 3ème éd., 2022.

DEFRAIN-MEUNIER Alix, Le Comité chargé des ONG, gardien de l’accès de la société civile à l’ONU, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2019.

DEFRAIN-MEUNIER Alix, « Les acteurs non étatiques à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies », in DEVIN Guillaume et al. (dir.), L’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies, Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2020.

DEFRAIN-MEUNIER Alix, Compte rendu de KELLOW A. et MURPHY-GREGORY H. (ed.), Handbook of Research on NGOs, in European Review of International Studies (ERIS), Vol.7 (1), juin 2020, p.176-179.

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