Understanding Sovereign Lending

An interview with Quentin Bruneau on his new book, States and the Masters of Capital

While we can quibble about what sovereignty means as social scientists, the international system is almost exclusively populated by sovereign states—and I wanted to understand how lending to such entities functions....

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Understanding Sovereign Lending

History Rhymes

As history’s pendulum swings back, the problems and promises of globalization’s fragmented frameworks become almost too evident

The neoliberal thinking that has defined globalization in the West since the eighties decrees that state involvement in the economy is verboten-but that’s actually antithetical to America’s origins....

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History Rhymes