Profile
Fanny Badache Jan 2023

Fanny BADACHE

Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva
Spoken languages
French, English, Spanish, Italian
Areas of expertise
  • International organisations, UN
  • Diversity Management
  • Peacebuilding and peacekeeping
  • Research Methods

Fanny Badache is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “A child of its time: The impact of world politics on UN peacebuilding” with the Graduate Institute's Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). Between 2015 and 2020, she was a teaching assistant and PhD candidate in political science at the University of Lausanne. During the academic year 2018-2019, she was a visiting fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). She has a master in public management and a bachelor in international relations, both from the University of Geneva. During her studies, she also did a number of internships with NGOs and the United Nations in Geneva and in Sierra Leone.

Her research interests lie at the intersection between international relations and public administration. She specialized in the study of international bureaucracies. In her PhD dissertation, she studied the impact of staff diversity on the performance and perceived legitimacy of the UN Secretariat. She is also interested in methods to research international organizations and a strong advocate for cross-disciplinary dialogue.

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

  • Badache, Fanny & Leah R. Kimber. 2023. Anchoring International Organizations in Organizational Sociology. Swiss Journal of Sociology. 49(3): 9-19.

  • Badache Fanny, Hellmüller, Sara and Bilal Salayme. 2022. Conflict-manager or conflict-solver: What role for the UN in peacebuilding in a multipolar world order? Contemporary Security Policy. 45(4): 547-571. doi:10.1080/13523260.2022.2147334 (shortlisted for the 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize).

  • Badache, Fanny. 2022. Unpacking the Bureaucratic Representation – Legitimacy Relationship in International Organizations: The Role of Elite Beliefs and Legitimation Practices. Global Studies Quarterly. 2(4). doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksac063.

  • Dairon, Emilie & Fanny Badache. 2021. Understanding International Organizations’ Headquarters as Ecosystems: The Case of Geneva. Global Policy. 12(S7): 24-33. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12956.

  • Maertens, Lucile, Kimber, Leah, Badache, Fanny & Emilie Dairon. 2021. Time and Space in the Study of International Organizations. Global Policy. 12(S7): 5-13. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.13022.

  • Badache, Fanny. 2020. A Representative Bureaucracy Perspective on Workforce Composition in International Organizations: The Case of the United Nations Secretariat. Public Administration. 98(2): 392-407.doi: 10.1111/padm.12629.

Peer-reviewed volume:

  • Badache, Fanny, Kimber, Leah & Lucile Maertens (Eds). 2023. International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction. Ann Harbor: University of Michigan Press.

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

 

  • Badache, Fanny. 2023.“Navigating in the UN’s Human Resources Statistics” in Badache, Fanny, Kimber, Leah & Lucile Maertens (Eds). International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction. Ann Harbor: University of Michigan Press.

  • Badache, Fanny, Kimber, Leah & Lucile Maertens. 2023. “Introduction: Rethinking Methods of Investigation and International Organizations” in Badache, Fanny, Kimber, Leah & Lucile Maertens (Eds). International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction, Ann Harbor: University of Michigan Press.

Dataset:

  • Badache, Fanny; Hellmüller, Sara; Salayme, Bilal, 2022, “United Nations Security Council peace-related speeches (UNSCPeaS)”. Harvard Dataverse, V1. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0OROVZ.