I am an FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), attached to the REPI (Research and studies in international politics), to SONYA (Socio-Environmental Dynamics Research Group), and to the IEE (Institute of European Studies). Since 2022, I have been conducting a research project on the role of critical raw materials in the energy transition, specifically looking at the lithium sector.

Quentin Deforge

Description


I am an FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), attached to the REPI (Research and studies in international politics), to SONYA (Socio-Environmental Dynamics Research Group), and to the IEE (Institute of European Studies). Since 2022, I have been conducting a research project on the role of critical raw materials in the energy transition, specifically looking at the lithium sector.

After a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics (especially development economics), I received a PhD in political science from Paris-Dauphine University-PSL, in 2019. My work seeks to understand how the rearrangements of the international order translate and materialize into transformations of states and public policies and into redefinitions of sovereignty, especially in the global south. More broadly, my research lies at the intersection of International Political Sociology and the sociology of states and public policies, and is based both on a transnational and comparative approach. I have conducted qualitative studies (using archives, interviews and observations) within the headquarters of international organizations and development agencies (IMF, UNCTAD, UNDP, International IDEA, UNCTAD, USAID, World Bank) and in various countries (Tunisia, Serbia, Chile, Argentina, Ukraine). I have been a visiting scholar in the United States, Tunisia and Argentina, and I have taught at university in France and in Tunisia.



Domaine d’activité
  • Good governance, Democracy-promotion, and Open Government policies.
  • Sovereign debt and economic development policies.
  • "Green" industrial policies and critical minerals (especially lithium).
Enseignement et activités
Supervision of master thesis for the master in international relations, especially on the energy transition, environmental politics, and extractivism.
Projets de recherche
Publications

- La fabrique transnationale de l’accountability : Cadrage et importation en Tunisie du modèle des Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations, Revue Internationale des Études de Développement, n°248, 2022, p. 59-86 (avec Déborah Perez).

- Une expertise internationale sans « bonnes pratiques ». Soutenir la professionnalisation du travail parlementaire dans la Tunisie d’après 2011, Critique internationale, n° 83, 2019, p. 127-145.

- Faillite d’État et fragilité juridique. L’Argentine face à l’ordre financier international, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, n° 221-222, 2018, p. 38-63 (avec Benjamin Lemoine).

- Parlement démocratique ou chambre d’enregistrement ? Mise à l’agenda et contestation des normes démocratiques dans le champ des politiques de « gouvernance », dans Faire, défaire la démocratie. De Moscou, Bogota et Téhéran au Conseil de l’Europe, ouvrage dirigé par Pascal Bonnard, Dorota Dakowska et Boris Gobille, Collection Questions transnationales, Karthala, 2021, p. 63-90.

- The Global South Debt Revolution That Wasn’t: UNCTAD, from Technocractic Activism to Technical Assistance, dans Sovereign Debt Diplomacies, ouvrage dirigé par Pierre Pénet et Juan Flores, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, p. 232-256 (avec Benjamin Lemoine).

- L’indépendance préfabriquée. La mise en forme d’un modèle international de contrôle parlementaire du budget de l’État, dans Politiques de l’indépendance, ouvrage dirigé par Antoine Vauchez et Bastien François, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2020, p. 185-204.

 

Mail : quentin.deforge@ulb.be
Institut d'études européennes (bureau R41.4.104)
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 39
1050 Bruxelles

Updated on May 30, 2023