Martin Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1843-1234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU 's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty
More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’. These conclusions were issued against a dramatically altered geopolitical backdrop, including the onset of the Russia–Ukraine War, worsening Sino‐American relations and the …
The European Union in the Indo‐Pacific: Gauging the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy Across Eight Indo‐Pacific Locations
This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured interviews with foreign policy decision‐makers and influencers, supplemented by policy sandpit workshops in each l…
Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU –New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the EU's Indo‐Pacific strategy. Ocean governance and green transition emerged as priority cooperation areas, …
Renewal in time of global disruption: Asia’s expectations of the EU
Three Decades on: Still a Capability–Expectations Gap? Pragmatic Expectations towards the EU from Asia in 2020
This paper uses Hill's seminal ‘Capability–Expectations Gap’ framework (CEG) to analyse EU capabilities and expectations of the EU, from the perspectives of four key Asia‐Pacific states, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Intensive analysis of domestic print media shows that all four states have low perceptions of EU capability, particularly EU ability to reach agreement on common action. Indonesia and South Korea also have low overall expe…
The New Zealand Experience: Thank you Jean Monnet
The trajectory of EU Studies in New Zealand has taken multiple paths over the last quarter century, seen a proliferation of organisations and acronyms but a constant and secure funding base maintained by successive tranches of Jean Monnet and other EU funding mechanisms. The longevity of such a benign environment is now, however, uncertain. It is counter-intuitive, perhaps paradoxical, to witness a change in EU support for academic experts at a t…
Brexit and After: Perspectives on European Crises and Reconstruction from Asia and Europe
Is Affective Effective? Measuring Affective Learning in Simulations
Simulations have become a regular component of teaching toolkits. They provide teachers with a platform to take students’ knowledge and understanding of subject materials beyond the classroom. In doing so, simulations fulfill a critical pedagogical purpose in that they need to construct a learning space; one more efficacious in delivering learning opportunities than traditional modes of instruction. In order for simulations to be effective, stude…
Brexit and After: Perspectives on European Crises and Reconstruction from Asia and Europe
Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions
Narrative Alignment and Misalignment: Nato as a Global Actor as Seen from Australia and New Zealand
In the wake of the Afghan missions, this article assesses the appetite in Australia and New Zealand for an ongoing relationship with NATO. Australia and New Zealand share many commonalities in their cultural, political, and economic profiles. Yet their identities in the realm of defense and security differ subtly, which has important implications for the reception of NATO’s strategic narratives in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on strategi…
Communicating Europe in Times of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union
The EU as an Agent for Democracy: Images of the EU in the Pacific Media ‘Mirror’
The Pacific is a major recipient of EU assistance under the Cotonou Agreement and target for EU development actions (including the reinforcement of democracy and human rights). Positioning its inquiry within the diffusion theory, this study focuses on one of the Union’s ‘normative’ profiles communicated externally, namely the EU’s international performance as a promoter of democracy, rule of law and human rights. This paper considers a particular…
Crossing cultures: Analysing the experiences of NZ returnees from the EU (UK vs. non-UK)
The Circular International Migration of New Zealanders: Enfolded Mobilities and Relational Places
Migrants’ social relations are reconfigured in relation to how the localised and distanciated are recombined in context of how individuals are embedded in the enfolded mobilities of increasingly mobile social networks. The paper is organized around three main propositions. First, that social relations are structured across three main and intersecting domains – family, workplace and community. Second, that social relations and networks are shaped …
Invisible Forum? The Public Outreach of the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem)
Contributing to the wider field of studies of international communication strategies by major international fora, this study investigates a scholarly vacuum – the role of visibility in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). A novelty of this inquiry is that it is carried out on endogenous (i.e. deriving internally in ASEM) and exogenous (i.e. originating externally to ASEM) levels. Addressing the former perspective, this paper examines ASEM’s official d…
A Survey of the Architecture EU Studies in the Asia-Pacific: New Zealand’s comparative performance
The following survey of the current state of European Union Studies in the Asia-Pacific is in two parts. First, a region-wide perspective is offered that explores the various Networks and Centres that can be found dealing with the EU. This analysis builds on the publication The Future of European Studies in Asia. 2 The second part provides a more focused comparative assessment of EU Studies in New Zealand and the development of the EU Centres Net…
The EU and the Global Development Agenda
At the turn of the twenty‐first century the international community began to construct a new agenda to address growing global inequalities. The European Union has been a core partner in this movement, which has involved the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the G8 as well as international activists, such as Bob Geldhof and Bono and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. This article examines the EU’s connection to this wider global governance developmen…
The European union's common foreign policy: The Role of the Commission in an “Intergovernmental” Process
The importance of South Africa's relations with the European Union (EU) is well established. What is perhaps less well understood is the complexity that underlays the foreign policy‐making process within the EU. South Africa's own form of consultation and consensus style of decision‐making, albeit extensive by nation‐state standards, pails when confronted by the multi‐layered process of foreign policy‐making in the EU. The current negotiations be…
European Foreign Policy Transition in Theory and Practice
South Africa, Sadc, and the European Union: Matching Bilateral with Regional Policies
These comments by South Africa's Minister for Trade and Industry, Trevor Manuel, were made in November 1994 in a speech to the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP)—European Union (EU) ministerial meeting in Brussels. Words, of course, can be interpreted in various ways. Contrary to the seeming clarity of Manuel's request, the underlying sub-texts illustrated both the past prevarication of the South African Government and the continuing uncertainty on …
Bridging the Capability‐Expectations Gap: A Case Study of the CFSP Joint Action on South Africa
This article applies and responds to Hill's 1993 JCMS article on the expectations‐capability gap that exists in the conduct of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The case study of one of the first CFSP joint actions (South Africa) provides empirical data that suggest that any such gap can be minimized. While accepting Hill's general arguments, the case suggests that the CFSP can be effective and proactive
European political co‐operation and member state diplomatic missions in third countries — findings from a case‐study of South Africa
South Africa Inc: The Oppenheimer Empire
Disinvestment, Sanctions and the European Community's Code of Conduct in South Africa
Journal Article DISINVESTMENT, SANCTIONS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S CODE OF CONDUCT IN SOUTH AFRICA Get access MARTIN HOLLAND MARTIN HOLLAND Martin Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Initial funding for this project was provided by a University of Cape Town post-dectorial fellowship. The bulk of the research was conducted during july and August 1987 While the author was a Visitor in the Southe…
Bridging the Capability‐Expectations Gap: A Case Study of the CFSP Joint Action on South Africa
This article applies and responds to Hill's 1993 JCMS article on the expectations‐capability gap that exists in the conduct of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The case study of one of the first CFSP joint actions (South Africa) provides empirical data that suggest that any such gap can be minimized. While accepting Hill's general arguments, the case suggests that the CFSP can be effective and proactive
The Circular International Migration of New Zealanders: Enfolded Mobilities and Relational Places
Migrants’ social relations are reconfigured in relation to how the localised and distanciated are recombined in context of how individuals are embedded in the enfolded mobilities of increasingly mobile social networks. The paper is organized around three main propositions. First, that social relations are structured across three main and intersecting domains – family, workplace and community. Second, that social relations and networks are shaped …
Three Decades on: Still a Capability–Expectations Gap? Pragmatic Expectations towards the EU from Asia in 2020
This paper uses Hill's seminal ‘Capability–Expectations Gap’ framework (CEG) to analyse EU capabilities and expectations of the EU, from the perspectives of four key Asia‐Pacific states, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Intensive analysis of domestic print media shows that all four states have low perceptions of EU capability, particularly EU ability to reach agreement on common action. Indonesia and South Korea also have low overall expe…
The EU and the Global Development Agenda
At the turn of the twenty‐first century the international community began to construct a new agenda to address growing global inequalities. The European Union has been a core partner in this movement, which has involved the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the G8 as well as international activists, such as Bob Geldhof and Bono and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. This article examines the EU’s connection to this wider global governance developmen…
Narrative Alignment and Misalignment: Nato as a Global Actor as Seen from Australia and New Zealand
In the wake of the Afghan missions, this article assesses the appetite in Australia and New Zealand for an ongoing relationship with NATO. Australia and New Zealand share many commonalities in their cultural, political, and economic profiles. Yet their identities in the realm of defense and security differ subtly, which has important implications for the reception of NATO’s strategic narratives in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on strategi…
South Africa, Sadc, and the European Union: Matching Bilateral with Regional Policies
These comments by South Africa's Minister for Trade and Industry, Trevor Manuel, were made in November 1994 in a speech to the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP)—European Union (EU) ministerial meeting in Brussels. Words, of course, can be interpreted in various ways. Contrary to the seeming clarity of Manuel's request, the underlying sub-texts illustrated both the past prevarication of the South African Government and the continuing uncertainty on …
Crossing cultures: Analysing the experiences of NZ returnees from the EU (UK vs. non-UK)
Three Approaches for Understanding European Political Co‐operation: A Case‐Study of EC — South African Policy
The Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: Contemporary Developments and the Impact of the European Elections
Journal Article THE SELECTION OF PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES: CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS AND THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS Get access Martin Holland Martin Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 28–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054187 Published: 01 January 1981
Is Affective Effective? Measuring Affective Learning in Simulations
Simulations have become a regular component of teaching toolkits. They provide teachers with a platform to take students’ knowledge and understanding of subject materials beyond the classroom. In doing so, simulations fulfill a critical pedagogical purpose in that they need to construct a learning space; one more efficacious in delivering learning opportunities than traditional modes of instruction. In order for simulations to be effective, stude…
Disinvestment, Sanctions and the European Community's Code of Conduct in South Africa
Journal Article DISINVESTMENT, SANCTIONS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S CODE OF CONDUCT IN SOUTH AFRICA Get access MARTIN HOLLAND MARTIN HOLLAND Martin Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Initial funding for this project was provided by a University of Cape Town post-dectorial fellowship. The bulk of the research was conducted during july and August 1987 While the author was a Visitor in the Southe…
The European Community and South Africa: Economic Reality or Political Rhetoric
This article examines the economic and political relationship between the European Community (EC) and the Republic of South Africa (RSA). From the economic perspective, the Community's objective of securing economic independence for the region, trends in EC–RSA trade and the arguments pertaining to mineral dependency are discussed. From the political perspective, Community statements on apartheid are compared with its foreign policy record. In pa…
The EU as an Agent for Democracy: Images of the EU in the Pacific Media ‘Mirror’
The Pacific is a major recipient of EU assistance under the Cotonou Agreement and target for EU development actions (including the reinforcement of democracy and human rights). Positioning its inquiry within the diffusion theory, this study focuses on one of the Union’s ‘normative’ profiles communicated externally, namely the EU’s international performance as a promoter of democracy, rule of law and human rights. This paper considers a particular…
A Response to Lewis: Partisanship and Issue Preferences
The European Community and South Africa: In Search of a Policy for the 1990s
Journal Article The European Community and South Africa: in search of a policy for the 1990s Get access Martin Holland Martin Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 3, Summer 1988, Pages 415–430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622849 Published: 01 July 1988
The Other Side of Sanctions: Positive Initiatives for Southern Africa
In 1977 the member-states of the European Community (E.C.) adopted a collective strategy designed to and apartheid and to encourage the economic independence of South Africa's less-developed neigh-bours. The respective foreign-policy instruments used to achieve these goals were the Code of Conduct and the Lomé Convention, through which assistance was provided for the Frontline states. The scope of the Community's Southern African actions was enla…
British Political Recruitment: Labour in the Euro-Elections of 1979
Research into the recruitment process within British political parties has tended to focus on either the institutional machinery of selection or the socio-economic characteristics of candidates. The analysis of non-selected aspirants has been ignored and those hypotheses that do exist remain empirically untested. In this article data on the Labour party's recruitment process for the 1979 direct elections to the European Parliament are used to tes…
Electoral Status and Candidate Selection: Data and findings from the 1979 British Direct Election to the European Parliament
(1986). Electoral Status and Candidate Selection: Data and findings from the 1979 British Direct Election to the European Parliament. Political Science: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 157-171
A rejoinder: The European community and regional integration in Southern Africa — a misplaced analogy
This article has two objectives: firstly, it comments on Vale's application of the device of ‘high’ and ‘low’ politics as an analytical mechanism for understanding political and economic integration. It is argued that while historically the European Community may have only constituted an economic ('low') association, since 1975 it has moved, albeit tentatively, into the realm of political integration ('high’ politics). The second objective juxtap…
A Review of NUS Politics: From Protest to Moderation
The Euro‐election and minority winners
The Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: Contemporary Developments and the Impact of the European Elections
Journal Article THE SELECTION OF PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES: CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS AND THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS Get access Martin Holland Martin Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 28–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054187 Published: 01 January 1981
A Response to Lewis: Partisanship and Issue Preferences
Labour's Women Candidates for the European Parliament
A rejoinder: The European community and regional integration in Southern Africa — a misplaced analogy
This article has two objectives: firstly, it comments on Vale's application of the device of ‘high’ and ‘low’ politics as an analytical mechanism for understanding political and economic integration. It is argued that while historically the European Community may have only constituted an economic ('low') association, since 1975 it has moved, albeit tentatively, into the realm of political integration ('high’ politics). The second objective juxtap…
The European Community and South Africa: Economic Reality or Political Rhetoric
This article examines the economic and political relationship between the European Community (EC) and the Republic of South Africa (RSA). From the economic perspective, the Community's objective of securing economic independence for the region, trends in EC–RSA trade and the arguments pertaining to mineral dependency are discussed. From the political perspective, Community statements on apartheid are compared with its foreign policy record. In pa…
Electoral Status and Candidate Selection: Data and findings from the 1979 British Direct Election to the European Parliament
(1986). Electoral Status and Candidate Selection: Data and findings from the 1979 British Direct Election to the European Parliament. Political Science: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 157-171
New Zealand's relations with Africa: The changing foreign policy of a small state
(1987). New Zealand's relations with Africa. The Round Table: Vol. 76, No. 303, pp. 343-360
Three Approaches for Understanding European Political Co‐operation: A Case‐Study of EC — South African Policy
British Political Recruitment: Labour in the Euro-Elections of 1979
Research into the recruitment process within British political parties has tended to focus on either the institutional machinery of selection or the socio-economic characteristics of candidates. The analysis of non-selected aspirants has been ignored and those hypotheses that do exist remain empirically untested. In this article data on the Labour party's recruitment process for the 1979 direct elections to the European Parliament are used to tes…
The European Community and South Africa: In Search of a Policy for the 1990s
Journal Article The European Community and South Africa: in search of a policy for the 1990s Get access Martin Holland Martin Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 3, Summer 1988, Pages 415–430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622849 Published: 01 July 1988
The Other Side of Sanctions: Positive Initiatives for Southern Africa
In 1977 the member-states of the European Community (E.C.) adopted a collective strategy designed to and apartheid and to encourage the economic independence of South Africa's less-developed neigh-bours. The respective foreign-policy instruments used to achieve these goals were the Code of Conduct and the Lomé Convention, through which assistance was provided for the Frontline states. The scope of the Community's Southern African actions was enla…
Disinvestment, Sanctions and the European Community's Code of Conduct in South Africa
Journal Article DISINVESTMENT, SANCTIONS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S CODE OF CONDUCT IN SOUTH AFRICA Get access MARTIN HOLLAND MARTIN HOLLAND Martin Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Initial funding for this project was provided by a University of Cape Town post-dectorial fellowship. The bulk of the research was conducted during july and August 1987 While the author was a Visitor in the Southe…
South Africa Inc: The Oppenheimer Empire
European political co‐operation and member state diplomatic missions in third countries — findings from a case‐study of South Africa
South Africa, Sadc, and the European Union: Matching Bilateral with Regional Policies
These comments by South Africa's Minister for Trade and Industry, Trevor Manuel, were made in November 1994 in a speech to the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP)—European Union (EU) ministerial meeting in Brussels. Words, of course, can be interpreted in various ways. Contrary to the seeming clarity of Manuel's request, the underlying sub-texts illustrated both the past prevarication of the South African Government and the continuing uncertainty on …
Bridging the Capability‐Expectations Gap: A Case Study of the CFSP Joint Action on South Africa
This article applies and responds to Hill's 1993 JCMS article on the expectations‐capability gap that exists in the conduct of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The case study of one of the first CFSP joint actions (South Africa) provides empirical data that suggest that any such gap can be minimized. While accepting Hill's general arguments, the case suggests that the CFSP can be effective and proactive
European Foreign Policy Transition in Theory and Practice
The European union's common foreign policy: The Role of the Commission in an “Intergovernmental” Process
The importance of South Africa's relations with the European Union (EU) is well established. What is perhaps less well understood is the complexity that underlays the foreign policy‐making process within the EU. South Africa's own form of consultation and consensus style of decision‐making, albeit extensive by nation‐state standards, pails when confronted by the multi‐layered process of foreign policy‐making in the EU. The current negotiations be…
The EU and the Global Development Agenda
At the turn of the twenty‐first century the international community began to construct a new agenda to address growing global inequalities. The European Union has been a core partner in this movement, which has involved the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the G8 as well as international activists, such as Bob Geldhof and Bono and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. This article examines the EU’s connection to this wider global governance developmen…
A Survey of the Architecture EU Studies in the Asia-Pacific: New Zealand’s comparative performance
The following survey of the current state of European Union Studies in the Asia-Pacific is in two parts. First, a region-wide perspective is offered that explores the various Networks and Centres that can be found dealing with the EU. This analysis builds on the publication The Future of European Studies in Asia. 2 The second part provides a more focused comparative assessment of EU Studies in New Zealand and the development of the EU Centres Net…
Invisible Forum? The Public Outreach of the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem)
Contributing to the wider field of studies of international communication strategies by major international fora, this study investigates a scholarly vacuum – the role of visibility in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). A novelty of this inquiry is that it is carried out on endogenous (i.e. deriving internally in ASEM) and exogenous (i.e. originating externally to ASEM) levels. Addressing the former perspective, this paper examines ASEM’s official d…
The EU as an Agent for Democracy: Images of the EU in the Pacific Media ‘Mirror’
The Pacific is a major recipient of EU assistance under the Cotonou Agreement and target for EU development actions (including the reinforcement of democracy and human rights). Positioning its inquiry within the diffusion theory, this study focuses on one of the Union’s ‘normative’ profiles communicated externally, namely the EU’s international performance as a promoter of democracy, rule of law and human rights. This paper considers a particular…
Crossing cultures: Analysing the experiences of NZ returnees from the EU (UK vs. non-UK)
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