Dirk De Bièvre

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.
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