Restoring Agency to Informal Diplomats in Narratives of the Vietnam War
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The history of the diplomacy of the Vietnam War perennially suffers from two lapses. First, scholarly literature almost completely ignores informal diplomacy between North Vietnam and the wider world. Scholars have neglected to grant political and diplomatic agency to ordinary citizens of North Vietnam and the West who regularly interacted to pressure U.S. presidents to end the war in Vietnam. Secondly, the accounts are largely written from Western or U.S. perspective. Most histories prioritize Western diplomacy, while denying proper voice to North Vietnamese. In these ways, North Vietnamese people and diplomats are written out of their own story, consigned to the margins as mere spectators in grand narratives of the diplomacy of the war.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it