Dr. Matthew Stephen
Cohort 2008
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn & Prof. Dr. Philip Nel
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Global Governance Department
Research Fellow
Alumni
Matthew Stephen completed his PhD at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies and the WZB in 2013. He has held visiting positions at the Hebrew University Berlin, the University of Sydney, and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has taught at the Free University Berlin, the University of Otago, the University of Potsdam, Charles University, and the Berlin Summer School for Social Science. He took up a position as a Research Fellow at the WZB in 2013, where he researches the impact of the rise of major developing countries on global governance.
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Title of PhD Thesis
Pivotal Rising Powers: India, Brazil, South Africa and Contestation in Global Governance.
Research Interests
International Relations
International Institutions
Rising Powers
Global Political Economy
Global Governance