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Dr Giuseppe Paparella

Dr Giuseppe Paparella

Visiting Research Fellow and Guest Teacher

Department of International History

Email
G.Paparella@lse.ac.uk>
Room No
SAR.M.15
Office Hours
Thursday, 10am - 11am
Languages
English, Italian
Key Expertise
U.S. in Asia, Nationalism, IR Theory, Historically informed Public Policy

About me

Dr Giuseppe Paparella is a Visiting Research Fellow and a Guest Teacher in the Department of International History, LSE. Previously, he spent two years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Security and Foreign Policy at the Global Research Institute, William & Mary (U.S.). At William & Mary, he was also a Faculty Affiliate in the Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History, where he designed and taught modules on applied history and foreign policy, and on American foreign relations in East Asia. Between 2019 and 2022 Dr Paparella held research and visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, George Washington University, and Stanford University.

By combining International Relations Theory and International History, Dr Paparella’s research agenda investigates how nationalist domestic policies and cognitive attitudes interact to shape U.S. foreign policy, and it seeks to understand the long-term impact of U.S. nationalist foreign policies in the Asia Pacific. His first scholarly book – tentatively titled Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs and U.S. Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898-1972 and under contract with a major university press – will provide an original and significant contribution to the important debates about the factors shaping U.S. policy in the region. Furthermore, his research on these and other related topics has been published or is forthcoming in the US Army War College Press, The International History Review, National Identities, The Diplomat, H-Diplo/RJISSF, The Strategy Bridge, California Management Review and others.

Dr Paparella obtained a PhD in Security Studies from King’s College London (2021) and a MSc in International Relations from LSE. He is a member of the Bridging the Gap network and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Before his PhD, he worked in global health policy at the University of Oxford. Dr Paparella welcomes opportunities to pursue interdisciplinary collaborations and to contribute to policy and scholarly initiatives in his areas of research and expertise.

Expertise Details

The United States in the Asia Pacific; U.S.-China Relations; International Relations Theory; Ideologies of Progress; Strategy and Security

Honours and Awards
  • Non-Resident Lloyd and Lilian Vasey Fellow, Pacific Forum, 2022-2023
  • Fellow in Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Summer 2022
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University, 2021-2022
  • Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2019-2020

Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed and Book Chapters:

“Clash of Empires: Economic Nationalism, Strategic Rivalries, and the Rise of the United States in the Asia-Pacific.” In Brinkman-Schwartz, A. & Kennedy, G. (Eds.), The Phenomenon of Economic Warfare: Past, Present and Future. United States Army War College Press (2025).

“From (the Infrequency of) War to Vaccine Nationalism: Understanding Nationalism and Foreign Policy in the Decade of New Nationalism.” National Identities, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2023): 155-176.

“Losing China? Truman’s Nationalist Beliefs and the American Strategic Approach to China, 1948-1949.” International History Review, Vol. 44, No. 6 (2022): 1306-1326.

 

Articles:

“What US National (Dis)Unity Means for China Policy,” The Diplomat, October 6, 2023.

“Medical and Social Scientists as Strategic Advisors: The Case of GloPID-R in 2021,” California Management Review, May 1, 2023.

“Back to Diplomacy? The Bumpy Road to Sino-American Détente,” The Diplomat, December 24, 2022.

“Fear and the Logic of Othering: Decoding the 2022 National Security Strategy,” H-Diplo/RJISSF, November 11, 2022.

“Losing China: Revisiting American Involvement in China in the Early Cold War,” The Imperial & Global Forum, January 24, 2022.

“What Comes After COVID-19? Political Psychology, Strategic Outcomes, and Options for the Asia-Pacific “Quad-Plus,” The Strategy Bridge, July 21, 2020.

Teaching
HY245 The United States and the World since 1776

Fellowships and grants (past five years)
  • Global Research Institute, William & Mary, Seminar Grant, 2024
  • International Studies Association, Travel Grant, 2024
  • Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, Scholar Research Support Grant, 2023
  • Security & Foreign Policy Initiative, William & Mary, Research, Publication and Book Workshop Grant, 2022-2024
  • Royal Historical Society, Research Grant, 2020
  • Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Research Grant, 2019
  • Herbert Hoover Presidential Foundation, Research Grant, 2019
  • European Association for American Studies, Transatlantic Grant, 2019
  • Peter J. Parish Memorial Fund, Research Grant, 2019

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