Andrew Gawthorpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 997708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Gawthorpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Gawthorpe |
| SIGNATURE | GAWTHORPE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7690-0780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Presidential Extra‐Territorialization
This paper introduces the concept of presidential extra‐territorialization—the process whereby presidents act through or within a foreign jurisdiction in order to achieve a policy goal which implicates the rights commonly held by US citizens or residents. At the heart of presidential extra‐territorialization is the practice of jurisdictional arbitrage, which is defined as the strategic leveraging of the differences between legal and political con…
Competing and complementary regions in US foreign policy
Discussions of US foreign policy are heavily influenced by what we term competing regions discourse—the idea that there is a competition for resources between different global regions. While this discourse makes some valid points, it underemphasizes how complementarities between different regions can further the foreign policy goals of the United States. Competing regions discourse also overemphasizes military power—especially in Europe, the Indo…
Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump
The foreign policy of Donald Trump in his first term of office is often understood to have represented a sharp break with 'the Wilsonian tradition', which in turn is taken to mean an American foreign policy based on liberal principles. By instead advancing an alternative understanding of the Wilsonian tradition that it terms 'civilizational Wilsonianism', this article argues that there were actually far greater continuities between Wilson and Tru…
Confronting the Challenges to Multilateralism in Times of Crises
Counterinsurgency comes home
Two recent books suggest that the crisis of American democracy can be productively understood and addressed through concepts from security studies, namely ‘counterinsurgency’ and ‘civil war’. Yet doing so raises a host of ethical and practical problems which are only likely to make the crisis of American democracy worse
Modernization, Agricultural Economics, and U.S. Policy towards Land Reform in South Vietnam
The issue of land tenure loomed large in the Vietnam War, providing significant motivation to members of the Vietnamese Communist movement. Despite this, the United States never made a serious effort to urge the non-Communist regime in Saigon to carry out a thorough program of land redistribution. This article explains why by tracing the development of post-war U.S. policy towards the question of land redistribution and how this impacted American…
Taking US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class Seriously
Saigon in the Sixties
The most exciting section of Vietnam War historiography right now is undoubtedly that which is expanding our understanding of South Vietnam and its people. If the Vietnam War era is a tapestry, then we have been missing, still, some of the most important threads. One of the most conspicuous has been an understanding of the experiences of the Vietnamese who lived in South Vietnam’s urban centers, and particularly Saigon. Existing in a context whic…
Rural Government Advisers in South Vietnam and the U.S. War Effort, 1962–1973
In the mid-1960s, as the U.S. effort to bring widespread change to the social, economic, and political fabric of rural South Vietnam was getting under way, a representative of the United States Official Mission (USOM) in that country stumbled across evidence of large-scale corruption among officials of the South Vietnamese government (known in U.S. terminology as Government of Vietnam, or GVN). The USOM official was stationed in the Mekong Delta,…
Ken Burns, the Vietnam War, and the purpose of history
America’s involvement in Vietnam began in secrecy. It ended 30 years later in failure, witnessed by the entire world. It was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, A
Mad Dog?’ Samuel Huntington and the Vietnam War
Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington has frequently been considered a Vietnam War hawk. His observation that 'forced-draft urbanization' might help the United States win the war has come to define his engagement in contemporary strategic debates. This essay argues that both Huntington's academic work and his private policy advice to the U.S. Government in fact urged a political settlement to the conflict. It argues that in spite of this, Huntin…
David R. Contosta, America’s Needless Wars
Using Maoist terminology, Garvin favoured the 'radical, revolutionary line of resistance' in the black freedom struggle over a 'gradualist approach, tactical accommodations, and compromises with the structure of power' (p.174).These black travellers shared a common conviction that 'China's socialist experiment and its brand of Third World Marxism. . .offered them one, though not the only, utopic model of economic democracy, mass political partici…
All Counterinsurgency is Local
Although the concept of legitimacy is central to Western counterinsurgency theory, most discourse in this area black-boxes the concept. It hence remains under-specified in many discussions of counterinsurgency. Fortunately, recent research on rebel governance and legitimacy contributes to our understanding of the problems faced by counterinsurgents who want to boost state legitimacy while undermining that of the rebels. Taken together, this resea…
A guide to national security
Julian Richards’ book takes as its subject national security strategy in the contemporary world, with the 2010 United Kingdom National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Rev
Spies, advisors, and grunts
Vietnam was a complex conflict, which historians and political scientists have struggled to understand. Some of the bitterest disputes in the historiography revolve around the US approach to counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Many different facets of the war have received the attention of filmmakers, and an examination of their work suggests new ways of thinking about the conflict. This article considers film portrayals of three phases of the Vietnam …
Agency and Structure in the Study of Nation-Building during the Vietnam War
There has always been a highly personal element to debates over US strategy in the Vietnam War. The lengthy and brutal nature of the war, married to its complexity and resistance to easy moral judg
The China fallacy
Donald Gross The fallacy: How the can benefit from China's rise and avoid another Cold War New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. 320pp., $120.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1441 100832Whether to wield the stick against adversaries or feed them carrots: that is one of the perennial debates in Washington, DC. The debate has at its heart the belief that American actions are one of the primary factors determining the behaviour of other states. When the runs up against a …
The Ford Administration and Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific After the Fall of Saigon
This article enhances our understanding of the Ford administration's foreign policy by examining how it sought to react to a changed situation in the Asia-Pacific after the fall of Saigon in May 1975. It shows how changes in regional politics forced the administration to adapt to a situation in which allies began to look to the Communist countries for friendship and to reconsider having American forces on their soil. It illustrates this situation…
All Counterinsurgency is Local
Although the concept of legitimacy is central to Western counterinsurgency theory, most discourse in this area black-boxes the concept. It hence remains under-specified in many discussions of counterinsurgency. Fortunately, recent research on rebel governance and legitimacy contributes to our understanding of the problems faced by counterinsurgents who want to boost state legitimacy while undermining that of the rebels. Taken together, this resea…
Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump
The foreign policy of Donald Trump in his first term of office is often understood to have represented a sharp break with 'the Wilsonian tradition', which in turn is taken to mean an American foreign policy based on liberal principles. By instead advancing an alternative understanding of the Wilsonian tradition that it terms 'civilizational Wilsonianism', this article argues that there were actually far greater continuities between Wilson and Tru…
Mad Dog?’ Samuel Huntington and the Vietnam War
Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington has frequently been considered a Vietnam War hawk. His observation that 'forced-draft urbanization' might help the United States win the war has come to define his engagement in contemporary strategic debates. This essay argues that both Huntington's academic work and his private policy advice to the U.S. Government in fact urged a political settlement to the conflict. It argues that in spite of this, Huntin…
Spies, advisors, and grunts
Vietnam was a complex conflict, which historians and political scientists have struggled to understand. Some of the bitterest disputes in the historiography revolve around the US approach to counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Many different facets of the war have received the attention of filmmakers, and an examination of their work suggests new ways of thinking about the conflict. This article considers film portrayals of three phases of the Vietnam …
Agency and Structure in the Study of Nation-Building during the Vietnam War
There has always been a highly personal element to debates over US strategy in the Vietnam War. The lengthy and brutal nature of the war, married to its complexity and resistance to easy moral judg
The Ford Administration and Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific After the Fall of Saigon
This article enhances our understanding of the Ford administration's foreign policy by examining how it sought to react to a changed situation in the Asia-Pacific after the fall of Saigon in May 1975. It shows how changes in regional politics forced the administration to adapt to a situation in which allies began to look to the Communist countries for friendship and to reconsider having American forces on their soil. It illustrates this situation…
Agency and Structure in the Study of Nation-Building during the Vietnam War
There has always been a highly personal element to debates over US strategy in the Vietnam War. The lengthy and brutal nature of the war, married to its complexity and resistance to easy moral judg
The China fallacy
Donald Gross The fallacy: How the can benefit from China's rise and avoid another Cold War New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. 320pp., $120.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1441 100832Whether to wield the stick against adversaries or feed them carrots: that is one of the perennial debates in Washington, DC. The debate has at its heart the belief that American actions are one of the primary factors determining the behaviour of other states. When the runs up against a …
A guide to national security
Julian Richards’ book takes as its subject national security strategy in the contemporary world, with the 2010 United Kingdom National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Rev
Spies, advisors, and grunts
Vietnam was a complex conflict, which historians and political scientists have struggled to understand. Some of the bitterest disputes in the historiography revolve around the US approach to counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Many different facets of the war have received the attention of filmmakers, and an examination of their work suggests new ways of thinking about the conflict. This article considers film portrayals of three phases of the Vietnam …
All Counterinsurgency is Local
Although the concept of legitimacy is central to Western counterinsurgency theory, most discourse in this area black-boxes the concept. It hence remains under-specified in many discussions of counterinsurgency. Fortunately, recent research on rebel governance and legitimacy contributes to our understanding of the problems faced by counterinsurgents who want to boost state legitimacy while undermining that of the rebels. Taken together, this resea…
Mad Dog?’ Samuel Huntington and the Vietnam War
Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington has frequently been considered a Vietnam War hawk. His observation that 'forced-draft urbanization' might help the United States win the war has come to define his engagement in contemporary strategic debates. This essay argues that both Huntington's academic work and his private policy advice to the U.S. Government in fact urged a political settlement to the conflict. It argues that in spite of this, Huntin…
David R. Contosta, America’s Needless Wars
Using Maoist terminology, Garvin favoured the 'radical, revolutionary line of resistance' in the black freedom struggle over a 'gradualist approach, tactical accommodations, and compromises with the structure of power' (p.174).These black travellers shared a common conviction that 'China's socialist experiment and its brand of Third World Marxism. . .offered them one, though not the only, utopic model of economic democracy, mass political partici…
Ken Burns, the Vietnam War, and the purpose of history
America’s involvement in Vietnam began in secrecy. It ended 30 years later in failure, witnessed by the entire world. It was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, A
Saigon in the Sixties
The most exciting section of Vietnam War historiography right now is undoubtedly that which is expanding our understanding of South Vietnam and its people. If the Vietnam War era is a tapestry, then we have been missing, still, some of the most important threads. One of the most conspicuous has been an understanding of the experiences of the Vietnamese who lived in South Vietnam’s urban centers, and particularly Saigon. Existing in a context whic…
Rural Government Advisers in South Vietnam and the U.S. War Effort, 1962–1973
In the mid-1960s, as the U.S. effort to bring widespread change to the social, economic, and political fabric of rural South Vietnam was getting under way, a representative of the United States Official Mission (USOM) in that country stumbled across evidence of large-scale corruption among officials of the South Vietnamese government (known in U.S. terminology as Government of Vietnam, or GVN). The USOM official was stationed in the Mekong Delta,…
Modernization, Agricultural Economics, and U.S. Policy towards Land Reform in South Vietnam
The issue of land tenure loomed large in the Vietnam War, providing significant motivation to members of the Vietnamese Communist movement. Despite this, the United States never made a serious effort to urge the non-Communist regime in Saigon to carry out a thorough program of land redistribution. This article explains why by tracing the development of post-war U.S. policy towards the question of land redistribution and how this impacted American…
Taking US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class Seriously
Counterinsurgency comes home
Two recent books suggest that the crisis of American democracy can be productively understood and addressed through concepts from security studies, namely ‘counterinsurgency’ and ‘civil war’. Yet doing so raises a host of ethical and practical problems which are only likely to make the crisis of American democracy worse
Confronting the Challenges to Multilateralism in Times of Crises
Competing and complementary regions in US foreign policy
Discussions of US foreign policy are heavily influenced by what we term competing regions discourse—the idea that there is a competition for resources between different global regions. While this discourse makes some valid points, it underemphasizes how complementarities between different regions can further the foreign policy goals of the United States. Competing regions discourse also overemphasizes military power—especially in Europe, the Indo…
Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump
The foreign policy of Donald Trump in his first term of office is often understood to have represented a sharp break with 'the Wilsonian tradition', which in turn is taken to mean an American foreign policy based on liberal principles. By instead advancing an alternative understanding of the Wilsonian tradition that it terms 'civilizational Wilsonianism', this article argues that there were actually far greater continuities between Wilson and Tru…
Presidential Extra‐Territorialization
This paper introduces the concept of presidential extra‐territorialization—the process whereby presidents act through or within a foreign jurisdiction in order to achieve a policy goal which implicates the rights commonly held by US citizens or residents. At the heart of presidential extra‐territorialization is the practice of jurisdictional arbitrage, which is defined as the strategic leveraging of the differences between legal and political con…
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Vietnam War (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Foreign policy (5 works)