Dirk De Bièvre is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp (since 2006).
Together with Sieglinde Gstöhl (College of Europe), he is the author of The Trade Policy of the European Union (2018, EU Series Palgrave).
Together with Arlo Poletti (University of Trento), he is the author of Judicial politics and international cooperation: From Disputes to Deal-Making in the World Trade Organization (2016, ECPR Press), which will be awarded the 2018 Best Book Award of the International Law Section (ILAW) Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).
He is chair of the Master programme International Relations and Diplomacy at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp. The courses he teaches are Theories of International Relations, International Political Economy, Research Design of the master thesis political science, at the MA level, and the reading seminar Issues in International Politics at the BA level.
Dirk obtained his PhD in political science at the European University Institute (EUI, Firenze, Italy) in 2002. Supervisor of his PhD research was Daniel Verdier (now at Ohio State University). He studied in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Konstanz. After his PhD, he was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn and at the Mannheim Centre for Social Research of the University of Mannheim. He has previously taught in Mannheim, ULB Brussel, EHSAL Brussel, TU Dresden, LUISS Rome, and the KU Leuven. During the academic year of 2014-15, he was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dirk De Bièvre is member of the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, for which he is Official Representative at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), member of the Antwerp Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ACTORE, of the research group International Politics and associated member of the research group ACIM. He currrently is promotor of the EU training network PLATO coordinated by the University of Oslo, and member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy.
You can find a full CV Dirk De Bièvre May 2018 here, consult his academich bibliography, or follow him on ResearchGate for full text versions.
Current research projects:
- Maintaining Multilateralism. The Politics of Dispute Initiation at the World Trade Organization, together with Prof.Dr. Arlo Poletti (University of Trento, Italy), funded by the Research Foundation Flanders FWO, project description here.
- REFRACT, Research on Fragmentation and Complexity In Global Governance, Research community funded by the Research Foundation Flanders FWO.
- The institutional design of European Banking Union, project within the European Innovative Training Network PLATO, researcher: Philippe Lausberg.
- Jean Monnet Network on EU-Canada Relations: The EU and Canada in Dialogue, with Carleton University, Ottawa.
Forthcoming :
De Bièvre, Dirk (2019), ‘Trade, political coalitions, and neo-gothic architecture in Europe’, European Review (accepted 7 Febr 2017).
Wonka, Arndt, Iskander De Bruycker, Dirk De Bièvre, Caelesta Braun, and Jan Beyers (forthcoming 2018), ‘Interest groups in EU legislative policymaking: Levels of policy mobilization and patterns of conflict’, Politics & Governance.
Publications in preparation:
- Dirk De Bièvre, 'The Demise of TTIP. EU Transatlantic trade relations of the European Union at a cross roads', to be presented at the ISA/FLACSO conference, Quito, July 2018.
- Arlo Poletti, Dirk De Bièvre, and Aydin Yildirim, ‘The globalization of production and the politics of dispute initiation at the World Trade Organization, Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO), Bern, January 2017, and the ECPR Joint Sessions, April 2017, Nottingham.
Current PhD supervision:
- Philipp Lausberg, Sept 2017 – ongoing: On the delegation of powers in European Banking Union, EU PhD Innovative Training Network PLATO – Legitimacy in the European Union after the crisis.
- Inci Accus, Sept 2017 – ongoing, Lobbying in an autocracy: intellectual property and medical equipment firms in China, Executive PhD with the Antwerp Management School.
- Emile Van Ommeren, May 2018 - Dec 2021: Maintaining Multilateralism: The Politics of Dispute Initiation at the World Trade Organization, Research Foundation Flanders FWO.
Past PhD supervision:
- Jappe Eckhardt, Oct 2007 – defended 18 Oct 2011: Taking a firm stance: The political economy of business lobbying in EU trade policy towards China, funded by the FWO – Flanders Research Foundation;
- Marjolein Meijer, Jan 2007 – defended 17 Febr 2012: Bringing EU treaties home. Governmental strategies in treaty ratifications in Denmark and the Netherlands compared, funded by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UA;
- Anke Moerland, 2009 – defended 4 Oct 2013:Why Jamaica wants to protect Champagne: Intellectual Property Protection in EU Bilateral Trade Agreements, promoter together with Anselm Kamperman-Sanders and Peter Van den Bossche (member WTO AB), Universiteit Maastricht;
- Margaux Kersschot, March 2012 – defended 13 July 2016, Regional authorities’ control over EU external economic policy, funded by the Policy Centre International Policy (‘Steunpunt’) of the Flemish regional government, double degree with KU Leuven, co-supervisor Bart Kerremans;
- Aydin Yildirim, Oct 2013 – defended 21 Sept 2017, Overcoming Resistance to Compliance: Internationalization of Production and the Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement, funded by the UA Special Research Fund (BOF DOCPRO);