Dirk De Bièvre is Professor of International Politics and Chair of the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp.

He teaches 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 Relations at the BA level.

Together with Sieglinde Gstöhl (College of Europe), he is the author of The Trade Policy of the European Union (2018, EU Series Red Globe Press, Macmillan International Higher Education). 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), honoured with the 2017 Book Award of the International Law Section (ILAW) Section of the International Studies Association (ISA.

He studies at the universities of Leuven (Flanders), Louvain-la-Neuve (Wallonia) and Konstanz in Southern Germany, and 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); co-supervisor was Adrienne Héritier.

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 Brussels, EHSAL Brussels, TU Dresden, LUISS Rome, and the KU Leuven. During the academic year of 2014-15, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Dirk De Bièvre is member and Chair of the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, member of the the research group International Politics and associated member of the research groups Politics & Public Governance.

He is the Official Representative for the University of Antwerp at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), co-convenor of the ECPR Working Group on International Relations (Febr 2019-22), member of the ECPR-EISA Steering Committee for the European Journal of International Relations, and member of the jury for the ECPR Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy since 2015 and joined the editorial board of Politics & Governance in 2018. He currrently is the Antwerp promotor of the EU Innovative Training Network (ITN) PLATO coordinated by the University of Oslo.

You can find a full CV Dirk De Bièvre April 2020 here, consult his academic bibliography, or follow him on ResearchGate for full text versions.

Current research projects:

- The Politicization of European Union trade agreement negotiation, together with Prof. Dr. Arlo Poletti (University of Trento, Italy), Mapping politicisation, funded by the Research Fund (BOF) of the University of Antwerp, Exploring conditions for politicisation through QCA, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), project description here.

- 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.

Current PhD supervision:

1. Philipp Lausberg, Sept 2017 – Dec 2021: On the delegation of powers in European Banking Union, , EU Training Network PLATO – Legitimacy in the European Union after the crisis & Research Fund (BOF) University of Antwerp.
2. Inci Accus, Sept 2017 – ongoing, Lobbying in an autocracy: intellectual property and medical equipment firms in China, Executive PhD with the Antwerp Management School.
3. Emile Van Ommeren, April 2018 – October 2023: To Discriminate or Not to Discriminate? The Politics of Selective Trade Protection in the 21st Century, doctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders FWO.
4. Scott Hamilton, September 2019 – August 2023: The Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations, Research Fund (BOF) of the University of Antwerp.
5. Hans Diels, January 2020 – ongoing, Lobbying both sides: Transnational Business Mobilisation in Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: completion of a PhD started in Jan 2009, funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, interrupted July 2013, resumed January 2020.
6. Floor Doppen, September 2020 – August 2022: Maintaining Multilateralism The Politics of Dispute Initiation at the World Trade Organization, FWO research project, Research Foundation Flanders.
7. Darby Sanchez Stahmer, January 2020 - ongoing, Chinese Economic Statecraft and Overseas Foreign Direct Investment: Case Studies from Central America, Executive PhD with the Antwerp Management School.
8. Frederik Stevens, September 2019 – August 2024, Interest group power and the EU agenda, co-supervision with Peter Bursens, funding: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp.

Past PhD supervision:

1. 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;
   • senior lecturer at the University of York.
2. 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;
   • former president of the Dutch party Groenlinks.
3. 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;
   • lecturer at the Universiteit Maastricht.
4. 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;
   • Collaborator Antwerp Doctoral School, University of Antwerp.
5. 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);
   • Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern.