Dr. Matthew D. Stephen

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Portrait Foto Dr. Matthew D. Stephen (David Ausserhofer)
David Ausserhofer

Contact

stephenm [at] hsu-hh.de
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Former Staff Member of the Research Department
Visiting Researcher of the Research Department

Research fields

International Relations
international institutions | rising powers | global political economy

CV

since 05/2024
Professor of International Political Economy, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

since 04/2022
Principal Investigator of the DFG Heisenberg Project "China's Bid for Hegemony? China-led Multilateral Institutions and Social Purpose in Global Governance"

01/2013-04/2024
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.

0112/2016
Research Fellow at the DFG Research Group "International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?"

1011/2014
Visiting Scholar at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

0911/2013
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
Duration: 01.04.2022–31.03.2027
Funding: Heisenberg Programme of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

Selected Publications

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2024
Stephen, Matthew D. (2024): "China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony". In: Security Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, S. 152-159.
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, 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.