2026 Richard Higgott: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	35	754	685	10	10	158	5867

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Richard Higgott is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed to several areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on political science and international relations, development, general economics, econometrics, finance, and policy-related fields.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications on international relations, global policy design, and geopolitics. Notable papers include:

The age of fuzzy bifurcation: Lessons from the pandemic and the Ukraine War (2022, Global Policy)
The role of culture in EU Foreign Policy: Between International Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy (2022, Økonomi & Politik)
Strongman leadership and the limits to international cooperation (2023, Global Policy)
The demand for IPE and public policy in the governance of global policy design (2021, Policy and Society)
From geo-economics of the "Asia-Pacific" to geo-politics of the "Indo-Pacific" (2024, JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation)

Richard Higgott's research covers several main topics, including:

International Development and Aid
European Union Policy and Governance
Economic Issues in Ukraine
Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
History, Medicine, and Leadership
International Relations and Foreign Policy

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Nancy Viviani, Simon Reich, T. Reid, J. J. Woo, and Tim Legrand.

Most of Higgott's publications appear in academic venues such as:

Global Policy
Økonomi & Politik
Policy and Society
JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation

In addition to journal articles, Higgott has contributed to book publications, with a recent work published by Cambridge University Press titled Australia in World Affairs 1976-1980 (2024).

Best Publications

Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

863
Citations
The Asian economic crisis: A study in the politics of resentment

Richard Higgott

454
Citations
Studying Regions: Learning from the Old, Constructing the New

Shaun Breslin;Richard Higgott

383
Citations
Middle power leadership and coalition building: Australia, the Cairns Group, and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations

Richard A. Higgott;Andrew Fenton Cooper

276
Citations
Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

Richard Higgott;Richard Stubbs

234
Citations
Relocating Middle Powers

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230
Citations
Exploring alternative theories of economic regionalism: from trade to finance in Asian co-operation?

Heribert Dieter;Richard A. Higgott

229
Citations
Political Development Theory: The Contemporary Debate

Richard A. Higgott

226
Citations
Regions in comparative perspective

Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott;Ben Rosamond

213
Citations
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgot;Kim Richard Nossal

197
Citations
Justice Unbound? Globalization, States and the Transformation of the Social Bond

Richard Devetak;Richard A. Higgott

194
Citations
Contested globalization: the changing context and normative challenges

Richard Higgott

188
Citations
American unilateralism, foreign economic policy and the 'securitisation' of globalisation

Richard A. Higgott

142
Citations
Towards a global polity

Morten Ougaard;Richard A. Higgott

132
Citations
Southeast Asia: Essays in the political economy of structural change

R. Higgott;R. Robison

132
Citations
The International Political Economy of Regionalism: The Asia-Pacific and Europe Compared

Richard Higgott

129
Citations
The International Politics of Liminality: Relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific

Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

103
Citations
Challenging triumphalism and convergence: the limits of global liberalization in Asia and Latin America

Richard Higgott;Nicola Phillips

101
Citations
Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific

Richard Higgott

100
Citations
Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy: what can we learn from the WTO?

Richard A. Higgott;Eva Erman

99
Citations
GATS in context: development, an evolving lex mercatoria and the Doha Agenda

Richard Higgott;Heloise Weber

91
Citations
All at sea in a barbed wire canoe: Professor Cohen's transatlantic voyage in IPE

Richard Higgott;Matthew Watson

80
Citations
International relations of the Asia-Pacific

Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott

50
Citations
Pacific economic relations in the 1990s : cooperation or conflict?

Richard A. Higgott;Richard Leaver;John Ravenhill

28
Citations
Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

Annette Baker Fox;Andrew F. Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Breslin University of Warwick

Andrew F. Cooper University of Waterloo

Nicola Phillips University of Adelaide

Kevin Hewison University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mark Beeson University of Technology Sydney

Diane Stone European University Institute

Jan Aart Scholte Leiden University

Garry Rodan Murdoch University

Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh

External Links

Personal website of Richard Higgott

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