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Overview

Ian Holliday is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Development.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • International Development and Aid
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Peacebuilding and International Security

Among recent scholarly contributions, Ian Holliday authored the paper titled Humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup published in 2025 in the Journal of Asian Public Policy. Other recent papers in the broader dataset were authored by collaborators or other authors but are relevant within the same academic context. These include:

  • Can regime change improve ethnic relations? Perception of ethnic minorities after the 2021 coup in Myanmar, 2022, Japanese Journal of Political Science
  • Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar's National League for Democracy, 2023, Party Politics
  • Humanitarian policy and action in Asia: analysing challenges, exploring opportunities, 2025, Journal of Asian Public Policy

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Ian Holliday include:

  • Aung Kaung Myat
  • Roman David
  • Alistair D. B. Cook
  • Lina Gong

Publication venues where Ian Holliday's work appears regularly feature:

  • Journal of Asian Public Policy
  • Japanese Journal of Political Science
  • Party Politics

Their academic output focuses on intersections of political and social phenomena in Asia, particularly relating to conflict, humanitarian issues, and governance challenges across different regions.

Best Publications

  • Productivist Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy in East Asia:

    Ian Holliday

  • Political parties in advanced industrial democracies

    Paul Webb;David M Farrell;Ian Holliday

  • The British cabinet system

    Martin Burch;Ian Holliday

  • The Korean welfare state: A paradox of expansion in an era of globalisation and economic crisis

    Soonman Kwon;Ian Holliday

  • East Asian social policy in the wake of the financial crisis: farewell to productivism?

    Ian Holliday

  • Welfare Capitalism in East Asia

    Ian Holliday;Paul Wilding

  • Is the British State Hollowing Out

    Ian Holliday

  • Building e‐government in East and Southeast Asia: Regional rhetoric and national (in)action

    Ian Holliday

  • The Blair Government and the Core Executive

    Martin Burch;Ian Holliday

  • E‐government in China

    Ian Holliday;Ray Yep

  • Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar

    Ian Holliday

  • Addressing Myanmar’s Citizenship Crisis

    Ian Holliday

  • Institutional emergence: The case of the north west region of England

    Martin Burch;Ian Holliday

  • The Channel Tunnel : public policy, regional development, and European integration

    Ian Holliday;Gérard Marcou;R. W. Vickerman

  • Welfare Capitalism in East Asia. Social Policy in the Tiger Economies

    Ian Holliday;Paul Wilding

  • Doing Business with Rights Violating Regimes Corporate Social Responsibility and Myanmar's Military Junta

    Ian Holliday

  • Myanmar in 2012: Toward a Normal State

    Ian Holliday

  • Traditional medicines in modern societies: an exploration of integrationist options through East Asian experience.

    Ian Holliday

  • Governance in the Information Age: Building E-Government in Hong Kong

    Ian Holliday;Rebecca C.W. Kwok

  • Rethinking the United States's Myanmar Policy

    Ian Holliday

  • Precarity and Political Immobilisation: Migrants from Burma in Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Meghan L. Eberle;Ian Holliday

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger W. Vickerman
Roger W. Vickerman University of Kent
Andrew Gamble
Andrew Gamble University of Sheffield
Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy London School of Economics and Political Science
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin

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