David Gill

Contact

• workRoom C14 Law and Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14885
• David.Gill@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

David James Gill is a Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History, Cambridge. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was previously a Fellow of the AHRC Leadership Scheme. Prior to his academic career, he spent several years working in London for a management consultancy firm. David holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Expertise Summary

David's research focuses on connections between the fields of International Relations, Economic History, and Organisation Studies. His work appears in the American Historical Review, Economic History Review, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Cold War Studies, Security Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Strategic Management Journal. David has written three books. His first book, Britain and the Bomb, was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. David's second and co-authored book, Divided Allies, was published by Cornell University Press in 2019. His third book, The Long Shadow of Default, was published by Yale University Press in 2022.

Teaching Summary

David teaches modules across a wide range of topics concerning international relations and economic history.

Recent Publications

• GIIL, D. J., 2025. War Debts and the Repayment Norm Security Studies. 34(2), 459-492
• GILL, D. J., M. TRACHTENBERG, M. J. GILL, P. E. TETLOCK, T. K. ROBB, M .E. W. VARNUM, C. A. HUTCHERSON, I. GROSSMANN and Z. TRODD, 2025. Predicting the Past: Testing Expert Historical Judgement American Historical Review. 130(4), 1615–1630
• GILL, M. J. and D. J. GILL, 2024. Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors Strategic Management Journal. 45(3), 588–615
• GILL, D. J., 2022. The Long Shadow of Default Yale University Press.

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Ph.D. supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work in the following areas:

• The uses of history in International Relations
• Western alliances during the Cold War
• The politics of sovereign debt and default

Current students

Patrick Endress (second supervisor)

Thomas Eason (second supervisor)

• GIIL, D. J., 2025. War Debts and the Repayment Norm Security Studies. 34(2), 459-492
• GILL, D. J., M. TRACHTENBERG, M. J. GILL, P. E. TETLOCK, T. K. ROBB, M .E. W. VARNUM, C. A. HUTCHERSON, I. GROSSMANN and Z. TRODD, 2025. Predicting the Past: Testing Expert Historical Judgement American Historical Review. 130(4), 1615–1630
• GILL, M. J. and D. J. GILL, 2024. Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors Strategic Management Journal. 45(3), 588–615
• GILL, D. J., 2022. The Long Shadow of Default Yale University Press.
• GILL, D. J., 2021. Review essay: rethinking sovereign default Review of International Political Economy.
• ROBB, T. K. and GILL, D. J., 2019. Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War Cornell University Press.
• GILL, M. J., MCGIVERN, G., STURDY, A., PEREIRA, S., GILL, D. J. and DOPSON, S., 2019. Negotiating Imitation: Examining the Interactions of Consultants and Clients to Understand Institutionalization as Translation British Journal of Management. (In Press.)
• GILL, M., D. GILL and T. ROULET, 2018. Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques British Journal of Management. 29(1), 191–205
• ROULET, T., GILL, M., STENGER, S. and GILL, D., 2017. Reconsidering the Value of Covert Research: The Role of Ambiguous Consent in Participant Observation Organizational Research Methods. 20(3), 487-517
• ROBB, T. and GILL, D. J., 2015. The ANZUS Treaty During the Cold War: A Reinterpretation of United States Diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific Journal of Cold War Studies. 17(4), 109-157
• GILL, D. J., 2015. Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings Economic History Review. 68(3), 1016-1037
• GILL, D. J. and GILL, M. J., 2015. The Great Ratings Game: How Countries Become Creditworthy Foreign Affairs.
• FU, R., GILL, D., HUNDMAN, E., LIFF, A. and IKENBERRY, G. J., 2015. Correspondence: Looking for Asia’s Security Dilemma International Security. 40(2), 181-204
• GILL, D. J., 2014. Britain and the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970 Stanford University Press.
• GILL, D. J., 2011. The ambiguities of opposition: economic decline, international cooperation, and political rivalry in the nuclear policies of the Labour Party, 1963–1964 Contemporary British History. 25(2), 251-276
• GILL, D.J., 2010. Ministers, markets and missiles: the British government, the European Economic Community and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1964-68 Diplomacy and Statecraft. 21(3), 451-470
• GILL, D.J., 2010. Strength in numbers: The Labour Government and the size of the Polaris force Journal of Strategic Studies. 33(6), 819-845