Research
Haggard’s research lies at the intersection of international relations,international political economy and comparative politics. He has a particular interest in transitions to and from democratic rule and East Asia,with a focus on the Korean peninsula.
The Political Economy of Growth
Haggard's first book,Pathways from the Periphery:The Political Economy of Growth (1990) took a statist approach to the growth of the East Asian newly industrializing countries,comparing their development experiences with those of Latin America. He revisited these themes in his 2018 book on Developmental States. His early work also addressed issues of the political economy of financial crises,reform and structural adjustment,most notably in his initial collaboration with Robert Kaufman The Politics of Adjustment:International Constraints,Distributive Politics,and the State (1992) and Haggard and Steven Webb,eds. Voting for Reform:The Political Economy Adjustment in New Democracies (1994). In 2000,he published an analysis of the 1997 Asian financial crisis titled The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis. In 2021,they published Backsliding:Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World,which analyzes the phenomenon in comparative perspective.
Transitions to and from Democratic Rule and Their Consequences
From the mid-1990s,Haggard and Kaufman turned their attention to transition to and from democratic rule. Their work in this vein included The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995),Development,Democracy and Welfare States:Latin America,East Asia,and Eastern Europe (2008) —one of the first books to compare welfare regimes across the developing world - and "Inequality and Regime Change;Democratic Transitions and the Stability of Democratic Rule" (American Political Science Review 2012). The last piece was elaborated in Dictators and Democrats:Elites,Masses and Regime Change (2016).
The Korean Peninsula
In the mid-2000s,Haggard began a collaboration with Marcus Noland on the political economy of North Korea. In addition to numerous articles on the topic,they produce three monographs:Famine in North Korea:Markets,Aid,and Reform (2007);Witness to Transformation:Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011) and Hard Target:Sanctions,Inducements and the Case of North Korea (2017). He and Noland have maintained the "North Korea:Witness to Transformation" blog from 2011-2019,which covers humanitarian,human rights,political and strategic developments around the Korean peninsula.
International Relations
Haggard has written extensively on the international relations of East Asia. Alongside David Kang,he co-edited two volumes that examine the region’s historical role in shaping the global order. East Asia in the World:Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order (2020) explores pivotal moments in the region’s integration into global politics. A second volume,East Asia and the Modern International Order:From Imperialism to Cold War (2025),extends this analysis into the early Cold War period. Haggard’s current research centers on the effects of illiberal regimes on global governance.
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