DIMITRIS STEVIS 2010- (December 31, 2014) Department of Political Science Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1782 Office phone: 970-491- 6082 Fax: 970-491- 2490 Email: dimitris.stevis@colostate.edu EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 1987 Ph.D., Political Science, University of Arizona. 2002- Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University. COURSES TAUGHT 2010- Introduction to International Relations International Political Economy (upper level; cross listed with Economics) Globalization, Sustainability and Justice (upper level) Global Labor Politics (capstone seminar) Greening the Economy: The Green Jobs Strategy (capstone seminar) Environmental and Labor Rights in Economic Agreements (capstone seminar) International Relations (graduate seminar) Governance of the World Political Economy (graduate seminar) Transnational Social Regulation (special graduate seminar) Green Production? Just Production? (special graduate seminar) Politics of Environment and Sustainability (graduate seminar) International Environmental Politics (graduate research seminar) PUBLICATIONS 2010-1 *2015c Michele Betsill and Dimitris Stevis. The Politics and Dynamics of Energy Transitions: Lessons from Colorado s (USA) New Energy Economy. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (forthcoming). *2015b Global Labor Politics and Fair Trade. In Laura Raynolds and Elizabeth Bennett (eds) The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing. *2015a Dimitris Stevis and Romain Felli. Global Labour Unions and Just Transition to a Green Economy. International Environmental Agreements (available on line, issue to be determined). 2014g Romain Felli and Dimitris Stevis. La Stratégie syndicale d une transition juste vers une écomomie durable. Mouvements 2014/4 (no 80): 111-118. *2014f Sydow, Jorg, Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen, Kadire Zeynep Sayim and Dimitris Stevis. Implementation of Global Framework Agreements: Towards a Multi- organizational Practice Perspective. Transfer 20 (4): 489-513, 1 Publications with a * are refereed. 1
*2014e Michele Betsill, Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis (eds). Advances in International Environmental Politics, 2 nd edition. Palgrave. *2014d Dimitris Stevis The Trajectory of International Environmental Politics. In Michele Betsill, Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis (eds). Advances in International Environmental Politics, 2 nd edition. Palgrave, pp. 13-44. *2014c Timothy Ehresman and Dimitris Stevis. Transparency and Environmental Equity: The IFC's Disclosure Practices. In Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason (eds) Transparency in Global Environmental Governance. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, pp. 297-320. *2014b Stratis Giannakouros and Dimitris Stevis. Colorado s New Energy Economy: Ecological Modernization American Style? In Neil E. Harrison and John Mikler (eds) Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 72-96. *2014a Dimitris Stevis US Labour Unions and Climate Change: Technological Innovations and Institutional Influences. In Neil E. Harrison and John Mikler (eds) Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 164-188. 2013c 2013b 2013a Stevis, Dimitris and Michael Fichter. Les accords cadres internationaux: au- delà de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises? In Dorval Brunelle et al (eds.), Travail et commerce. Clauses sociales, responsabilité sociale et accords transnationaux d'entreprise, Montreal: edition IEIM, 151-167. Michael Fichter and Dimitris Stevis. Global Framework Agreements in the USA: An Assessment of their Implementation and Impacts. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Washington, Perspective. Michael Fichter and Dimitris Stevis. Global Framework Agreements in a Union- Hostile Environment: The Case of the USA. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Hans Bockler Stiftung. http://library.fes.de/pdf- files/id/10377.pdf 2012d Fichter, M., Sydow, J, Helfen, M., Arruda, L., Agtas, O., Gartenberg, I.,Mccallum, J., Sayim, K., and Stevis, D. 2012. Globalizing Labour Relations: On Track with Framework Agreements? Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Perspective, (October). *2012c Michael Fichter, Dimitris Stevis and Markus Helfen. Bargaining for Corporate Responsibility: The Global and the Local of Framework Agreements in the USA." Special issue on "Corporate Responsibility, Multinational Corporations, and Nation States." Business and Politics 14 (3): 1-31 (guest editors Aseem Prakash and Jennifer Griffin). *2012b Green Jobs? Good Jobs? Just Jobs? USA Labour Unions Confront Climate Change. In Nora Rathzell and David Uzell (eds). Trade Unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment. Earthscan/Routledge, pp. 179-195. *2012a Dimitris Stevis and Michael Fichter. Globalizing or Escaping European Industrial Relations? International Framework Agreements in the USA. Comparative Labor Law and Policy 33(4): 667-690. 2011d Dimitris Stevis and Michael Fichter. Global Framework Agreements: Looking Inwards, Outwards and Onwards. International Labour Review 18(2): 16-17. *2011c The Impacts of International Framework Agreements: Lessons from the Daimler Case, In Kostas Papadakis (ed) Shaping Global Industrial Relations. Palgrave and ILO, pp. 116-142. *2011b Unions and the Environment: Pathways to Global Labor Environmentalism. WorkingUSA 14 (2): 145-159. 2
2011a Timothy Ehresman and Dimitris Stevis. International Environmental Justice, in Gabriela Kütting (ed) Global Environmental Politics: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 87-104. *2010b International Relations and the Study of Global Environmental Politics, In Bob Denemark (ed) The International Studies Encyclopedia, volume vii, pp. 4476-4507. Wiley- Blackwell (also electronic format). *2010a International Framework Agreements and Global Social Dialogue: Parameters and Prospects. International Labour Office, Employment Sector, Employment Working Paper No. 47. WORK IN PROGRESS (selected) Labor Union Environmentalism analysis and writing stage Colorado s New Energy Economy analysis and writing stage Labor and Global Framework Agreements analysis and writing stage REVIEWS AND UNPUBLISHED REPORTS (selected) 2014 Review of Carla Lipsig- Mummé (ed) Climate@Work (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing. In Labour/Le Travail, 74 (Fall): 344-346. 2012b Review of Tamara Kay NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism (Cambridge University Press) entitled Transnational Labor Politics? Lessons form NAFTA. International Studies Review 14(4): 632-634. 2012a The Politics and Dynamics of Energy Transitions: Lessons from Colorado s New Energy Economy White Paper prepared by Michele Betsill, Dimitris Stevis, Linse Anderson, Jonathan Fisk, Stratis Giannakouros and Samantha McGraw. 2010c Organization and Regulation of Employment Relations in Transnational Production and Supply Networks: Ensuring Labour Standards through International Framework Agreements: Progress Report for the USA. Draft report submitted to international research project under same title and led by Michael Fichter and Jorg Sydow of the Free University of Berlin. Edited final report published in Novembrer 2013. 2010b Review of Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuindenhout, Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity. For inaugural issue of Global Policy. 2010a Daimler s Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility: Accomplishments and Prospects. Findings and recommendations based on broader project, prepared for employee representatives at their request. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2010-2015c Competing Transnationalisms? Form and Purpose in Global Framework Agreements. To be presented at the May 2015 Law and Society Conference. 2015b John Hultgren and Dimitris Stevis, Of Socio- natures and Environmentalist Engagements with Labor and Immigrants Rights. Paper to be presented at the April 2015 Western Political Science Conference. 2015a Global Labor Politics and Fair Trade. To be presented at the February 2015 International Studies Association Conference. 3
2014 Dimitris Stevis, Form and Purpose in Environmental Transitions: Union Environmentalism and Liberal Capitalism. International Studies Association Convention, Toronto, March. 2013c 2013b 2013a 2012d 2012c 2012b 2012a 2011b 2011a 2010b 2010a Dimitris Stevis and Romain Felli, Just Transitions to Climate Policy: Fusing Social and Ecological Justice. Presented at Work in Warming World International Conference, November 29- December 1, Toronto. Michele Betsill and Dimitris Stevis, The Politics and Dynamics of Energy Transitions: Lessons from Colorado s (USA) New Energy Economy. International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco. Stratis Giannakouros and Dimitris Stevis, "Colorado s New Energy Economy: Ecological Modernization American Style?" International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco. Global Framework Agreements: Escaping, Projecting or Globalizing Unionism? Presented at Interuniversity Research Center on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) Conference, October 25-28, Montreal. International Framework Agreements as Global Labour Governance: Between Varieties of Global Social Responsibility and Global Social Dialogue. Invited presentation at Workshop on Work and Trade, Montreal Institute for International Studies, October 17-18. Colorado s New Energy Economy. Poster presentation at CSU s CENERGY Expo on Colorado s New Energy Economy (collaboration with Michele Betsill, Linse Anderson, Jon Fisk, Stratis Giannakouros, Sam McGraw) (April 18, 2012) Labor Unions and a Just Transition to a Green Economy: How Green and How Just? Presented at International Studies Association Conference, San Diego (April). Corporate Responsibility and Labor: The Global and the Local of International Framework Agreements in the USA. (with Michael Fichter and Markus Helfen). Presented at workshop on Corporate Responsibility, Initiatives and Mechanisms, University of Washington, Seattle, May 6, 2011. Presentation at the End of the Regime- Paradigm roundtable. International Studies Association, Montreal (March). International Framework Agreements: Diffusing or Globalizing European Industrial Relations. International Sociological Association meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden (July 2010). International Environmental Justice Across Disciplines, Issues and Themes. International Studies Association Convention (February 2010) (with Tim Ehresman). FUNDING, 2010- Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Justice Global Challenge Research Team (2014) (co- PI) ($7,500). Colorado State University Energy Supercluster Seed Grant (with Michele Betsill) (2011) ($24,500) Canadian Government, North American Linkages (2010) (CAN 10,000). Free University of Berlin/Hans Bockler- Stiftung collaboration, (2009-2011) ($15,000) Professional Development Grant, Colorado State University, 2010, 2011, 2013 (~$5,000). 4
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND RECOGNITIONS, 2010-2015 Invited participant at the September 2015 workshop/conference on Environmental Labour Studies, University of Umea, Sweden. 2015 Distinguished Author Reception (with coeditor Michele Betsill) for Advances in International Environmental Politics, 2 nd edition, March 12, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University. 2014 Romain Felli and Dimitris Stevis. La Stratégie syndicale d une transition juste vers une écomomie durable. Mouvements 2014/4 (no 80): 111-118. Featured on French national public radio s «France culture» during a discussion on new environmental movements http://www.franceculture.fr/emission- la- grande- table- 2eme- partie- les- nouveaux- territoires- de- la- radicalite- 2014-12- 08 (after 29.00) 2011 Steering Committee, Colorado Earth System Governance Conference (May) 2011 Co- organizer and presenter at workshop on Global Framework Agreements in the USA National Press Club, Washington DC. Funded by Friedrich- Ebert Foundation. 2011 Invited participant and presenter in workshops (unions and management) on Global Framework Agreements in Montreal, Sao Paolo, Kingston (Ontario), Istanbul. 2010 Co- organizer, workshop on establishing a Global Labor Governance Network (UQAM, Montreal, November 2010) EDITORIAL BOARDS: 2013-2013- 2009- Global Labour Journal Aegean Journal of Environmental Sciences Environmental Politics. MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS 2010- Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, The MIT Press, Palgrave Press, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, Transnational Institute, British Journal of Political Science, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Ecological Economics, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Global Environmental Politics, Global Labour Journal, Global Policy, Global Society, Global Social Policy, Globalizations, Journal of Environment and Development, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of World-Systems Research, Labor Studies Journal, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Millennium, Mobilizations, Review of International Political Economy, Social Science Journal, WorkingUSA. 5