From Ukraine to global finance, informal organisations are stepping into gaps left by traditional institutions at a time of great power competition. With speed, flexibility, and a lack of constraining rules, these informal bodies are quietly reshaping international order write Steve Biedermann and Matthew Stephen
Secretariats of international organisations have long favoured staff from developed, Western countries. Rising powers are trying to change this, though with mixed success, they are now looking at other ways to achieve their goals, write Michal Parízek and Matthew Stephen
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is only the latest of many new multilateral institutions created by China. An alternative to the American-led liberal international order looks increasingly viable, suggests Matthew Stephen
Professor of International Political Economy, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Matthew is a political scientist specialising in global political economy and global governance.
He holds the Chair of Political Science (International Political Economy) at Helmut Schmidt University / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg since 2024 and is a member of the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation.
Matthew's research examines how power shifts challenge and reshape the legitimacy and functioning of global governance and has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, and International Studies Review.
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