Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Research Fellow of the Research Unit

Research fields

International Relations

international institutions | rising powers | global political economy

CV

since 01/2013
Research Fellow in the research unit Global Governance

10.2018-09.2019
Interim Professor of Political Science, 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
Fellow at the 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 Institute for Democracy and Human Rights 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)

2009−2013
PhD candidate at the WZB in conjunction with doctoral scholarship from the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies

09−12/2012
Einstein Doctoral Fellow, Hebrew University

2008−2009
Research Assistant, Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2008
Masters in Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2007−2008
Tutor, Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2006
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Selected Publications

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.

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./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. (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.

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.

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)

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)

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.

Stephen, Matthew (2011): "Globalisation and Resistance. Struggles over Common Sense in the Global Political Economy". In: Review of International Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, S. 209-228. (Vorab online publiziert 12. Oktober 2010)

Zürn, Michael/Stephen, Matthew (2010): "The View of Old and New Powers on the Legitimacy of International Institutions". In: Politics, Vol. 30, No. S1, Special Issue "Perspectives on the Changing Global Distribution of Power", edited by Alasdair R. Young/Jane Duckett/Paul Graham, S. 91-101.

Projects

Power Shifts, International Institutions and inter-Institutional Strategies

Staff: Dr. Benjamin Faude, Dr. Michal Parízek, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Lea Wisken

Duration: ongoing since 2014

Funding: WZB

Rethinking Legitimacy and International Institutions

Staff: Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Duration: ongoing since 2013

Contested World Orders

Staff: Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Martin Binder, Autumn Lockwood Payton, Ph.D., Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Dr. Alexandros Tokhi, Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte (GIGA), Dr. Miriam Prys (GIGA), Prof. Dr. Harald Müller (HSFK), Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf (HSFK)

Duration: ongoing since 2012

Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (SAW)