Richard Higgott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 740245 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Higgott |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Higgott |
| FIRMA | HIGGOTT R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 506 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Gangster diplomacy and the disordering of international society
This article develops the concept of gangster diplomacy as a practice-based analytical category for understanding contemporary transformations in international order. Situated at the intersection of practice theory and the English School, it conceptualizes diplomacy not merely as an instrument of statecraft, but as a socially embedded institution constituted through historically sedimented norms, tacit knowledge, and routinized performances. The …
Re‐Imagining Middle Powers in an Age of Global Transformation
The post–1945 international order is in flux. Trump's return to the White House in 2025 marks a critical juncture, reinforcing a structural transformation characterised by intensifying US–China rivalry, the weaponisation of economic statecraft and the fragmentation of multilateralism. Middle powers—positioned at the intersection of Washington's security imperatives and Beijing's economic gravitational pull—face mounting strategic challenges, but …
Strongman leadership and the limits to international cooperation
Extensive institutional and policy change is necessary for the values of co‐operation and constructive dialogue in international relations to be restored in the current context of the declining world order. But that alone is not sufficient. We also need behavioural changes in the world's top leaders. Hypermasculine and hubristic performance in strongman leader behaviour have consequences for stable world order. While there is robust research on c…
The age of fuzzy bifurcation
Academics, decision‐makers and policy makers have suggested that COVID and the war in Ukraine represent an ‘inflection point’. The consequence will be ‘the end of globalisation’, ‘a bipolar Cold War 2.0’ and a return to Containment. In reality, the emerging world order is much messier. The logics of geoeconomics and geopolitics, largely aligned during the Cold War, are now in tension, ruptured by decades of globalisation, America's decline, and C…
The demand for IPE and public policy in the governance of global policy design
The first decade of the 21st century recognised the growing salience of transnational or global governance as an analytical field of inquiry and as a normative project. In this introductory article, we argue that IPE offers a wider and deeper contextual understanding of the ‘global’ in a way that the scholarship of international relations, on the one hand, and that of international economics, on the other, have not done. IPE has been less strong …
Cultural Diplomacy in Europe
Years of the Pacific and The Pacific Review
This paper is a review of scholarship found in the pages of The Pacific Review over the last 30 years. It does so in three ways: (1) it highlights issues in the theory and practice of the international relations, strategic studies, political culture and political economy of the Asia Pacific region. (2) It looks at change in the region over time by an analysis of the shifting fortunes of the major regional powers, namely Japan, China and Indonesia…
Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
The changing architecture of politics in the Asia-Pacific
Middle power theory is enjoying a modest renaissance. For all its possible limitations, middle power theory offers a potentially useful framework for thinking about the behavior of, and options open, to key states in the Asia-Pacific such as South Korea, Japan and Australia, states that are secondary rather than primary players. We argue that middle powers have the potential to successfully implement ‘games of skill’, especially at moments of int…
Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy
The integration of the global economy through the liberalisation of the trade regime, the deregulation of financial markets and the privatisation of state assets has led to what we now commonly call ‘globalisation’. These processes, however, have not been accompanied by a comparable development of the global polity. At the same time, it is increasingly recognised in policy circles that without the development of norms, institutions and processes …
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
The contemporary importance of the Asia-Pacific region in international relations has generated a very large and diverse academic literature. This four-volume set brings together for the first time a collection of essential articles covering the key themes and issues since the end of the Cold War. It examines the ways in which the region understands its place in the world and how the rest of the world understands the 'Asia Pacific', before turnin…
How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century
This volume looks outward to the twenty-first century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? In contrast to the orthodoxies of academic Philosophy and International Relations in much of the twentieth century, which marginalised or rejected the study of ethics, the contributors here believe that there is nothing more political than ethics, and therefore deserving of sch…
International Political Institutions
This article looks at international political institutions and is divided into three main sections. The first section offers some theoretical and historical insights into the understanding of international organizations. The second section talks about the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and several other regional actors as exemplars of contemporary international organizations. It notes that regional organizations are quickly becomin…
Introduction
Global governance through multilateral institutions has fallen on hard times in the twenty-first century. Whereas intergovernmental multilateralism was the dominant form of international collective action in the second half of the twentieth century, today international cooperation through multilateral institutions is facing severe challenges. Over the past five years or so, contributors to Global Governance have grappled with these difficulties, …
Odd man in, odd man out
Richard A. Higgott is a Professor of Politics and International Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Warwick. He was Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and is currently Director of the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation. He is the editor of The Pacific Review. Kim Richard Nossal is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Inte…
The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism
The Theory and Practice of Regionalism in East Asia
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All at sea in a barbed wire canoe
The following article is written as a sympathetic critique of Benjamin Cohen's recent identification in RIPE of incommensurable traditions of American and British IPE. It is also designed to engender further debate within the subject field on this most central of issues. Our argument is that scholars should beware the rigid terms in which Cohen identifies IPE's transatlantic divide, because simply by naming his two camps as polar opposites the in…
Global Governance
As is customary, new journal editors open their term of office with statement of visions and aspirations for the journal that they have undertaken to promote. The following statement sets out the aims, conceptions, and practices that the incoming editorial team brings to Global Governance. Before setting out our own stall, however, we must acknowledge and applaud the excellent work of our predecessors. In just ten years, the initial two editorial…
Gats in context
As the hub of the organization for world trade, the WTO has been subject to critical scrutiny from various political and theoretical persuasions. Beyond merely the exchange of goods across borders, the complex and expansive WTO framework is one that encompasses juridical and political capacity to oversee and facilitate the regulation of ‘property rights’ on a global scale. Therefore, it is not surprising that the social and political organization…
Hegemony, institutionalism and US foreign policy
This paper explores the theoretical and policy implications of contemporary American hegemony. A key argument of the paper is that the development of American hegemony generally, and the distinctive turn in American foreign policy that has occurred in the wake of September 11 in particular, can best be understood by placing recent events in a comparative and historical framework. The immediate post-World War II order laid the foundation of a high…
After neoliberal globalization
This article traces the “securitization” of U.S. foreign economic policy in the administration of George W. Bush. It does so with reference to U.S. economic policy in East and Southeast Asia. It argues that in the context of U.S. economic and military preponderance in the world order, the United States has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitization of economic …
US Foreign Policy and the ‘Securitization’ of Economic Globalization
Exploring alternative theories of economic regionalism
The financial crises of the late 1990s marked an intellectual watershed for the global economy, and also for regionalism as the Janus face of globalization. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the theory and practice of regional cooperation and integration may evolve along different lines to how it was understood for most of the second half of the twentieth century. In East Asia, in particular, this will mean that the relationship betwe…
International relations
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
The contemporary importance of the Asia-Pacific region in international relations has generated a very large and diverse academic literature. This four-volume set brings together for the first time a collection of essential articles covering the key themes and issues since the end of the Cold War. It examines the ways in which the region understands its place in the world and how the rest of the world understands the 'Asia Pacific', before turnin…
Middle power leadership and coalition building
Perhaps the key question of debate among neorealist scholars of international political economy concerns the manner in which cooperation may or may not be secured in the global economic order "after hegemony," a question posed by Robert Keohane. A second broad question of interest to scholars of international politics concerns the manner in which weaker states attempt to influence stronger ones. A conflation of these two questions could cause sch…
The International Politics of Liminality
1997). The International Politics of Liminality: Relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 169-186
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
Journal Article Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict Get access Andrew Fenton Cooper, Andrew Fenton Cooper ANDREW FENTON COOPER is associate professor, department of political science. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Higgott, Richard A. Higgott RICHARD A. HIGGOTT is reader, department of international relations. Research Scho…
The Asian economic crisis
(1998). The Asian economic crisis: A study in the politics of resentment. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 333-356
Studying Regions
(2000). Studying Regions: Learning from the Old, Constructing the New. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 333-352
Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific
(1994). Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific. The Pacific Review: Vol. 7, Ideas, Policy Networks and International Policy Coordination in the Asia‐Pacific, pp. 367-379
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Richard A. Higgott, Andrew Fenton Cooper, Jenelle Bonnor, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: An Evolving Case-Study in Leadership and Co-operation Building, International Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, Multilateralism: Old & New (Autumn, 1990), pp. 823-866
Exploring alternative theories of economic regionalism
The financial crises of the late 1990s marked an intellectual watershed for the global economy, and also for regionalism as the Janus face of globalization. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the theory and practice of regional cooperation and integration may evolve along different lines to how it was understood for most of the second half of the twentieth century. In East Asia, in particular, this will mean that the relationship betwe…
The 1974 Coup d'État in Niger
In the early hours of Easter Sunday, 14 April 1974, the army, led by Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché, overthrew the Government which had held power in Niger since independence. President Hamani Diori's régime became the twenty-fifth in Africa to fall to a coup d'état in eleven years, and Niger the eighth republic of former French Africa to come under the control of the military
Competing conceptions of economic regionalism
Dramatic economic growth in the Asia Pacific has given rise to a both a scholarly and policy oriented debate about the most appropriate organizational form within which any dialogue over the nature economic policy coordination in the region might take place. The most visible exercise in regional economic dialogue over the last few years has been via the evolution of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC). APEC's increasing internation…
All at sea in a barbed wire canoe
The following article is written as a sympathetic critique of Benjamin Cohen's recent identification in RIPE of incommensurable traditions of American and British IPE. It is also designed to engender further debate within the subject field on this most central of issues. Our argument is that scholars should beware the rigid terms in which Cohen identifies IPE's transatlantic divide, because simply by naming his two camps as polar opposites the in…
US Foreign Policy and the ‘Securitization’ of Economic Globalization
Justice Unbound? Globalization, States and the Transformation of the Social Bond
Conventional accounts of justice suppose the presence of a stable political society, stable identities, and a Westphalian cartography of clear lines of authority—usually a state—where justice can be realized. They also assume a stable social bond. But what if, in an age of globalization, the territorial boundaries of politics unbundle and a stable social bond deteriorates? Can there be justice in a world where that bond is constantly being disrup…
Economic co‐operation in the Asia Pacific
The European Union and the growing institutional co‐operation in the Asia Pacific merit comparison because they represent alternative paths to ‘regionalism’. In addition, greater insight into the nature of the co‐operative endeavour in the Asia Pacific might mitigate the misuse of the rhetoric of ‘bloc politics’ found in much of the defensive European, and American, literature. While the context of managing regional economic policy co‐ordination …
The changing architecture of politics in the Asia-Pacific
Middle power theory is enjoying a modest renaissance. For all its possible limitations, middle power theory offers a potentially useful framework for thinking about the behavior of, and options open, to key states in the Asia-Pacific such as South Korea, Japan and Australia, states that are secondary rather than primary players. We argue that middle powers have the potential to successfully implement ‘games of skill’, especially at moments of int…
Odd man in, odd man out
Richard A. Higgott is a Professor of Politics and International Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Warwick. He was Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and is currently Director of the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation. He is the editor of The Pacific Review. Kim Richard Nossal is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Inte…
Economic cooperation
(1993). Economic cooperation: Theoretical opportunities and practical constraints. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 103-117
Tradition and Change in the Study of International Relations in Australia
Addressing international relations in Australia through the eyes of the scholar rather than the policymaker, this paper presents a partial and personal contribution to a growing sociology of knowledge of the discipline in general and in one country in particular. It outlines the centrality of a power politics realism to the Australian discipline, the central element of which has traditionally been the identification of "threats" and "protectors."…
Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy
The integration of the global economy through the liberalisation of the trade regime, the deregulation of financial markets and the privatisation of state assets has led to what we now commonly call ‘globalisation’. These processes, however, have not been accompanied by a comparable development of the global polity. At the same time, it is increasingly recognised in policy circles that without the development of norms, institutions and processes …
Gats in context
As the hub of the organization for world trade, the WTO has been subject to critical scrutiny from various political and theoretical persuasions. Beyond merely the exchange of goods across borders, the complex and expansive WTO framework is one that encompasses juridical and political capacity to oversee and facilitate the regulation of ‘property rights’ on a global scale. Therefore, it is not surprising that the social and political organization…
Building the normative dimension(s) of a global polity
Globalisation is not what it used to be. Earlier debates over how to read the indicators of economic liberalisation and the impact of technological expansion have now been joined by the increasingly pressing need to explore the social, environmental and political aspects of global change. Earlier discussions emphasised a number of dichotomies within the international political economy – open/closed, state/market and so on. These have proved limit…
Contested globalization
Even leading globalizers—that is, proponents of the continued liberalization of the global economic order occupying positions of influence in either the public or private domain—now concede that in its failure to deliver a more just global economic order, globalization may hold within it the seeds of its own demise. As James Wolfenson, President of the World Bank, noted in an address to the Board of Governors of the Bank in October 1998, ‘. . . […
The politics of Australia's international economic relations
Economic adjustment, a political priority for Labor governments throughout the second half of the 1980s, and in contrast to earlier Australian scholarship and practice, is now recognised to be an internationally, as well as a domestically, determined and constrained enterprise. Theoretical developments in international political economy in North America of late have provided a variety of approaches for conceptualising this twofold enterprise. Tak…
Introduction
(2000). Introduction: Asian crises and the myth of capitalist ‘convergence’. The Pacific Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-19
African studies in Australia 1974/75
The 1974 Coup d'État in Niger
In the early hours of Easter Sunday, 14 April 1974, the army, led by Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché, overthrew the Government which had held power in Niger since independence. President Hamani Diori's régime became the twenty-fifth in Africa to fall to a coup d'état in eleven years, and Niger the eighth republic of former French Africa to come under the control of the military
Rhetoric and reality
(1976). Rhetoric and reality: Australia's African relations under labor. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 158-176
Competing theoretical perspectives on development and underdevelopment
Structural dependence and decolonisation in a West African land‐locked state
What does ‘dependency’ mean in the little studied, land‐locked state of Niger? Class formation, the creation of a ‘national’ bourgeosie and the nature of the post‐colonial state have normally been studied in relation to the larger, more prosperous countries like the Ivory Coast and Kenya. (The discussion of which is further pursued in our Debates section). Here the author examines the differing impact of colonialism on a small country and provide…
From modernization theory to public policy
Political Development Theory
Export‐oriented industrialisation, the new international division of labour and the corporate state in the Third World
The division of the social sciences into separate disciplines is now largely recognised as spurious. Nowhere is this more so than in what we generally call ‘development studies’. Major contributions to development studies have come, and must continue to come, from economists, political scientists, sociologists and geographers – a pattern that is epitomised in the enormous amount of ‘interdisciplinary readers’ in development studies and the manner…
The State in Africa
Like the poor in history, the state in political science is, always with us. This is so even when, again like the poor in history, our attitude to the state is one of neglect. The attitude of the political science community towards the state has tended to be an excellent indicator of the prevailing political strategies, options and expectations that exist at a particular point in time. This is so in the study of political science generally and in…
Problems in Australian Foreign Policy January‐june 1986
Problems in Australian Foreign Policy, July—December 1985
Southeast Asia in the 1980s
Southeast Asia in the 1980s
Tradition and Change in the Study of International Relations in Australia
Addressing international relations in Australia through the eyes of the scholar rather than the policymaker, this paper presents a partial and personal contribution to a growing sociology of knowledge of the discipline in general and in one country in particular. It outlines the centrality of a power politics realism to the Australian discipline, the central element of which has traditionally been the identification of "threats" and "protectors."…
Middle power leadership and coalition building
Perhaps the key question of debate among neorealist scholars of international political economy concerns the manner in which cooperation may or may not be secured in the global economic order "after hegemony," a question posed by Robert Keohane. A second broad question of interest to scholars of international politics concerns the manner in which weaker states attempt to influence stronger ones. A conflation of these two questions could cause sch…
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Richard A. Higgott, Andrew Fenton Cooper, Jenelle Bonnor, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: An Evolving Case-Study in Leadership and Co-operation Building, International Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, Multilateralism: Old & New (Autumn, 1990), pp. 823-866
The politics of Australia's international economic relations
Economic adjustment, a political priority for Labor governments throughout the second half of the 1980s, and in contrast to earlier Australian scholarship and practice, is now recognised to be an internationally, as well as a domestically, determined and constrained enterprise. Theoretical developments in international political economy in North America of late have provided a variety of approaches for conceptualising this twofold enterprise. Tak…
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
Journal Article Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict Get access Andrew Fenton Cooper, Andrew Fenton Cooper ANDREW FENTON COOPER is associate professor, department of political science. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Higgott, Richard A. Higgott RICHARD A. HIGGOTT is reader, department of international relations. Research Scho…
Pacific economic cooperation and Australia
(1992). Pacific economic cooperation and Australia: Some questions about the role of knowledge and learning. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 182-197
Relocating Middle Powers
Economic cooperation
(1993). Economic cooperation: Theoretical opportunities and practical constraints. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 103-117
Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific
(1994). Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific. The Pacific Review: Vol. 7, Ideas, Policy Networks and International Policy Coordination in the Asia‐Pacific, pp. 367-379
The limits of influence
International non–governmental organizations and their influence over policy in international relations have become subjects of scholarly attention in recent years. One sector of the international policy-cum-analytic community that has received little attention, however, is that group of nationally based non-profit independent policy research institutes—popularly known as ‘think tanks’. This is a strange omission. Foreign policy think tanks and i…
Relocating Middle Powers
The Evolution of International Trade Agreements
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