Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Research Fellow of the Research Unit

Research fields

International Relations

international institutions | rising powers | global political economy

CV

since 04/2021
Principal Investigator of the DFG Heisenberg Project "China's Bid for Hegemony? China-led Multilateral Institutions and Social Purpose in Global Governance"

since 01/2013
Researcher in the research unit Global Governance

01/2021-12.2021
Interim Professor of International Political Economy, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

10.2018-09.2019
Interim Professor of International Relations and Regional Governance, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg.

01−12/2016
Research Fellow at the DFG Research Group "International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?"

10−11/2014
Visiting Scholar at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

09−11/2013
WZB Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney

07/2013
Doctoral degree, Department of Political Science, Free University of Berlin; Dissertation: "Pivotal Rising Powers: India, Brazil, South Africa and Contestation in Global Governance" (summa cum laude)

Projects

China’s Bid for Hegemony? China’s New Multilateral Institutions and Social Purpose in Global Governance

Head

Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Duration: 01.04.2022–31.03.2027

Funding: Heisenberg Programme of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

Selected Publications

2021

Parizek, Michal/Stephen, Matthew D. (2021): "The Increasing Representativeness of International Organizations' Secretariats. Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997-2015". In: International Studies Quarterly - A Publication of the International Studies Association, Vol. 65, No. 1, S. 197-209. (vorab online publiziert 17.12.2020)

Parízek, Michal/Stephen, Matthew D. (2021): "The Long March through the Institutions. Emerging Powers and the Staffing of International Organizations". In: Cooperation and Conflict - Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Vol. 56, No. 2, S. 204-223. (vorab online publiziert 19.10.2020)

Stephen, Matthew D. (2021): "China's New Multilateral Institutions. A Framework and Research Agenda". In: International Studies Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, S. 807-834. (vorab online publiziert 08.10.2020)

2020

Stephen, Matthew D./Stephen, Kathrin (2020): "The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions. China and the Arctic Council". In: Global Policy, Vol. 11, No. S3, Special Issue "Global Power Shifts: How do International Institutions Adjust?", edited by Andreas Kruck/Bernhard Zangl, S. 51-60.

2019

Stephen, Matthew D./Parízek, Michal (2019): "New Powers and the Distribution of Preferences in Global Trade Governance. From Deadlock and Drift to Fragmentation". In: New Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 6, S. 735-758. (vorab online publiziert 14.08.2018)

Stephen, Matthew D./Skidmore, David (2019): "The AIIB in the Liberal International Order". In: The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 12, No. 1, S. 61-91.

Stephen, Matthew D./Zürn, Michael (Eds.) (2019): Contested World Orders. Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State. Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, XIII, 393 S.

2018

Stephen, Matthew D. (2018): "Legitimacy Deficits of International Organizations. Design, Drift, and Decoupling at the UN Security Council". In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 1, S. 96-121.

2017

Stephen, Matthew D. (2017): "Emerging Powers and Emerging Trends in Global Governance". In: Global Governance - A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, Vol. 23, No. 3, S. 483-502.

2015

Stephen, Matthew D. (2015): "'Can You Pass the Salt?'. The Legitimacy of International Institutions and Indirect Speech". In: European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 4, S. 768-792. (vorab online publiziert 3. März 2015)

2014

Stephen, Matthew D. (2014): "Rising Powers, Global Capitalism and Liberal Global Governance. A Historical Materialist Account of the BRICs Challenge". In: European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 4, 21.05.2014, S. 912-938. (Vorab online publiziert 21. Mai 2014)

2012

Stephen, Matthew D. (2012): "Rising Regional Powers and International Institutions. The Foreign Policy Orientations of India, Brazil and South Africa". In: Global Society, Vol. 26, No. 3, Special Issue "Regional Powers and Global Redistribution", S. 289-309.