Francis Gavin

Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Editors for the Texas National Security Review.[1]

Francis Gavin
Born
Francis J. Gavin

(1965-12-04) December 4, 1965
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (B.A.)
Oxford University (MSt)
University of Pennsylvania
(M.A., Ph.D.)
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Texas at Austin

Career
Francis J. Gavin (left) in conversation with Matthew Kroenig (right) about his book, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters, Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C., 10 March 2018

Prior to his tenure at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Gavin was a Professor of Political Science at MIT, where he also served as the inaugural Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies. Before joining MIT, he taught at the University of Texas from 2000 to 2013. While there, he was named the Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in 2005, and served as the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2005 until 2010, Gavin directed The American Assembly’s multiyear, national initiative, The Next Generation Project: U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions. [2]

Gavin is an Associate of the Managing the Atom Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, Senior Fellow of the Clements Program in History, Strategy, and Statecraft, a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a Senior Advisor to the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and a life-member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3]

Education

Gavin received his PhD and MA in History from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Studies in Modern European History from Oxford and a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago.[2][4]

Bibliography
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Books
  • Gavin, Francis J. (2004). Gold, dollars, and power : the politics of international monetary relations, 1958-1971. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.[5]
  • Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age (Cornell University Press, 2012)*Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (edited with Mark Lawrence, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Chaos in the Liberal World Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century (edited with Robert Jervis, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse, Columbia University Press 2018)
  • Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy (Brookings Institution Press, 2020)

Articles
  • “Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy in Iran, 1950-1953.” Journal of Cold War Studies, Winter 1999: 58-89
  • “The Legends of Bretton Woods,” Orbis, Spring 1996, pp. 183-199
  • “The Myth of Flexible Response: American Strategy in Europe during the 1960s,” International History Review, December 2001: 847-875
  • “The Gold Battles within the Cold War: American Monetary Policy and the Defense of Europe, 1960-1963,” Diplomatic History, Winter 2002: 61-94
  • “Blasts from the Past: Nuclear Proliferation and Rogue States Before the Bush Doctrine,” International Security, Winter 2005, pp. 100-135
  • “History and Policy,” International Journal, Winter 2008
  • “Same as it ever was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War,” International Security, Winter 2010, pp. 7-37
  • Gavin, Francis J. & James B. Steinberg (Spring 2012). "Mind the gap : why policymakers and scholars ignore each other, and what should be done about it" (PDF). Carnegie Reporter. 6 (4): 10–17.
  • “Politics, History and the Ivory Tower-Policy Gap in the Nuclear Proliferation Debate,” Journal of Strategic Studies, August 2012, pp. 573-600
  • “History, Security Studies, and the July Crisis,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 319-331
  • “What If? The Historian and the Counterfactual,” Security Studies, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2015
  • “Strategies of Inhibition: U.S. Grand Strategy, the Nuclear Revolution, and Nonproliferation,” International Security vol. 40, No. 1, summer 2015, Pages 9-46
  • "Rethinking the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy,” Texas National Security Review, vol. 2, no. 1, winter 2019

Critical studies and reviews of Gavin's work
Gold, dollars, and power
  • James, Harold (June 2004), The Journal of Economic History, 64 (2): 629–631, doi:10.1017/S0022050704332912, JSTOR 3874807CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Eichengreen, Barry (December 2004), The American Historical Review, 109 (5): 1542–1543, doi:10.1086/530951CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Eckes, Alfred E. (March 2005), The Journal of American History, 91 (4): 1530–1531, doi:10.2307/3660306, JSTOR 3660306CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Selva, Simone (March 2005), Enterprise and Society, 6 (1): 149–151, doi:10.1017/s146722270001435xCS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Widmaier, Wesley W. (Summer 2005), "Review", Journal of Cold War Studies, 7 (3): 153–155, doi:10.1162/jcws.2005.7.3.153
  • Zeiler, Thomas W. (September 2005), The International History Review, 27 (3): 685–687, JSTOR 40109664CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Jackson, Ian (Spring 2006), International Journal, 61 (2, Global China): 520–522, doi:10.2307/40204182, JSTOR 40204182CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Helleiner, Eric (April 2007), Journal of Cold War Studies, 9 (2): 170–171, doi:10.1162/jcws.2007.9.2.170CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Nuclear statecraft
  • Freedman, Lawrence D. (May–June 2013), Foreign Affairs, 92 (3): 171–172, JSTOR 23526859CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Doyle, Suzanne (July 2013), History, 98 (331): 495–497, doi:10.1111/1468-229x.12017_43CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Mattox, John Mark (July–August 2013), "Review", Military Review, 93 (4)
  • Siracusa, J. M. (August 2013), Journal of American History, 100 (2): 598–599, doi:10.1093/jahist/jat292CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Nolan, Janne E. (November 2013), "Nuclear Politics", The Nonproliferation Review, 20 (3): 567–571, doi:10.1080/10736700.2013.849909
  • Tal, David (April 2014), The American Historical Review, 119 (2): 566–567, doi:10.1093/ahr/119.2.566CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Joshi, Shashank (July 2014), The RUSI Journal, 159 (4): 119–120, doi:10.1080/03071847.2014.946707CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  • Craig, Campbell (March 2015), Cold War History, 15 (2): 258–262, doi:10.1080/14682745.2015.1018477CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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References
  1. "Author at Texas National Security Review: Francis J. Gavin".
  2. "Francis J. Gavin". www.strausscenter.org. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  3. "Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs | Johns Hopkins SAIS".
  4. "Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs | Johns Hopkins SAIS".
  5. Library of Congress catalog has a 2003 copyright date.
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