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Giuseppe Paparella
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Lecturer in East Asian Security @warstudieskcl.bsky.social‬ & author of Abiding Influence (SUP, 2025) https://www.sup.org/books/politics/abiding-influence
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It’s Publication Day for Abiding Influence! 📖

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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 the SUP website (PAPARELLA20): www.sup.org/books/politi...

🌍 the Mare Nostrum Group website (SUP20): mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364174...
Following the release of 'Abiding Influence' earlier this month, it was wonderful to hold my book launch event last Friday evening, chaired by Dr Nicola Leveringhaus at King's College London @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

@stanfordpress.bsky.social @mngupbooks.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The world's place in China since WWII and vice versa - an interview with Rana Mitter (Carter Center): uscnpm.substack.com/p/internatio...
International Revolution, International Revision w/ Rana Mitter
The world's place in China since WWII and vice versa
uscnpm.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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📖 I look forward to the launch event of my first monograph, "Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898–1972" (@stanfordpress.bsky.social), at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on 21 November at 5:00pm.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Join @giuspapa.bsky.social for the book launch of Abiding Influence hosted by
@warcrimeskcl.bsky.social ocial on 21st November from 5:00pm GMT Copies will be available for sale at the event via Gilded Acorn kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

@stanfordpress.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📖 I look forward to the launch event of my first monograph, "Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898–1972" (@stanfordpress.bsky.social), at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on 21 November at 5:00pm.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Abiding Influence by Giuseppe Paparella shows how presidents' nationalist beliefs can influence distinct foreign policy attitudes that have underpinned important US foreign policy decisions and turning points in the Asia Pacific

https://ow.ly/OiQU50XmeR1
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s Publication Day for Abiding Influence! 📖

Grateful and happy to share a 20% discount code redeemable on:

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 the SUP website (PAPARELLA20): www.sup.org/books/politi...

🌍 the Mare Nostrum Group website (SUP20): mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364174...
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Giuseppe Paparella
Come celebrate the publication of @giuspapa.bsky.social 's book Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898–1972 on November 21st, 17:00. The event is free to attend, and it will be followed by a drinks reception.

Hosted by @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
Book Launch: Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and U.S. Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898-1972 | King's College London
Dr Giuseppe Paparella’s first monograph, published with Stanford University Press for their Studies in Asian Security series, examines key moments between 1898 and 1972 to show how four very different...
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Honoured and grateful for advance praise of my forthcoming book by three stellar scholars of US-Asia relations: Rana Mitter, Simei Qing, and Steve Casey.

Read more in links below:

giuseppepaparella.squarespace.com

www.sup.org/books/politi...
Abiding Influence | Stanford University Press
How do nationalist beliefs shape and influence American foreign policy? What are the contemporary implications of America's long-standing engagement in the Asia Pacific? This book unearths the varied ...
www.sup.org
July 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Look to Italy for a foreshadowing of the damaging consequences a rollback of birthright citizenship would have on American society as a whole, explains CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social in this coauthored piece

lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025...
US Aims to Abolish Birthright Citizenship: Italy Already Knows the Consequences
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American
lavocedinewyork.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Major point: staff cuts to the National Security Council "underscored how [it] is set to be changed from a body that traditionally helped presidents formulate an overarching national security policy into one that implements ideas already held by the president." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Drastic cuts under way bending US national security council to Trump’s will
Staff to be cut as office meant to formulate national security policy is reduced to implementing the president’s ideas, under watch of trusted aides
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Rana Mitter: "[O]ver the past century, the least reliable way to predict what China will look like in 20 years has always been to extrapolate in a straight line from where it is now."
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/once-a...
The Once and Future China
If you dropped in to China at any point in its modern history and tried to project 20 years into the future, you would almost certainly end up getting it wrong. In 1900, no one serving in the late Qin...
www.foreignaffairs.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is now official! Excited to announce that my first book – ABIDING INFLUENCE – is forthcoming in November 2025 with Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Read more here: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Copies can be pre-ordered here: tinyurl.com/mnyj94bz
Abiding Influence | Stanford University Press
How do nationalist beliefs shape and influence American foreign policy? What are the contemporary implications of America's long-standing engagement in the Asia Pacific? This book unearths the varied ...
www.sup.org
April 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Do our brains determine our politics, or can ideologies change our brains?" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired
In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"The sudden U-turn in American foreign policy could also spook partners in Asia that the U.S. would want on its side in any conflict with China." wsj.com/world/trump-... via @wsj.com
Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing
Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.
wsj.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It was a privilege to present research and receive feedback at the 2025 Emerging Scholars Conference at Notre Dame last week. Also, a great opportunity to meet brilliant colleagues and make new friends.

Thank you Michael Desch and Alex Yu-Ting Lin for inviting me!
February 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am incredibly excited to share that I have started a new role with the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as Research Fellow in East Asia. The Centre researches how foresight informs strategy and policy-making.
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/hyundai...
Hyundai Motor Group and Oxford's Foresight Centre will shape long term vision and strategy for business | Saïd Business School
The agreement marks a new partnership between Hyundai Motor Group and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. The Foresight Centre, based at Oxford Saïd, has been established to explore and ...
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So delighted to share that my first book – Abiding Influence (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) – was officially approved for publication from the Stanford Faculty Editorial Board! The book will examine how #nationalism has impacted U.S. foreign policy in the #Asia Pacific. More to come soon!
November 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Back to LSE! I am delighted to join the Department of International History this academic year as a Visiting Research Fellow and Guest Teacher.

Check out my new profile on the Department's website www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
Dr Giuseppe Paparella
Dr Giuseppe Paparella, International History, LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
The IR Theory Colloquium will give you the *unique* opportunity to join a small cohort of junior IR theorists and get feedback from top scholars! I was privileged to be part of last year’s cohort, a fantastic experience all around.

Do file your application, deadline August 9.
July 10, 2024 at 12:56 PM
A fantastic essay by Philip Zelikow: an excellent example of applied history and reasoning through plausible scenarios. tnsr.org/2024/05/conf...
Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking - Texas National Security Review
Drawing on his extensive experience as a historian and diplomat, Philip Zelikow warns that the United States faces an exceptionally volatile time in global politics and that the period of maximum dang...
tnsr.org
May 17, 2024 at 12:16 AM