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)

Selected Publications

2020

Parízek, Michal/Stephen, Matthew D. (2020): "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, advance access, 19.10.2020, online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836720966017.

Stephen, Matthew D. (2020): "China's New Multilateral Institutions. A Framework and Research Agenda". In: International Studies Review, advance access, 08.10.2020, online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa076.

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.

Projects

Power Shifts, International Institutions and inter-Institutional Strategies

Staff: Dr. Michal Parízek, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Duration: ongoing since 2014

Funding: WZB, Czech Science Foundation

Rethinking Legitimacy and International Institutions

Staff: Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

Duration: 2013-2016

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: 2012-2015

Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (SAW)