Articles
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Self-Determination and International Order: A Conversation with Bradley Simpson
The idea of self-determination belongs among the most important in modern international politics, yet its meaning and implications for decolonization, human rights, sovereignty, world economy, and international order remain fiercely contested. In…
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Brazil, Portugal, and Authoritarian Development: An Interview with Melissa Teixeira
During the interwar years, intellectuals across Europe and Latin America sought alternatives to both liberal capitalism and revolutionary socialism. Among the most ambitious of these experiments was corporatism—an effort to reconcile class…
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Moral Economy in the Spanish Empire and Latin America: New Histories of Capitalism in the Spanish-Speaking World
In this discussion, Glauber Wisniewski interviews Edward Jones Corredera and Julia McClure on their two recent books on ideas of moral economy in early modern Spain and Latin America. Julia McClure is…
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The Many Lives of Development Economics: An Interview with David Engerman
Development economics has lived many lives—ranging from the technocratic optimism of the postwar era to the critical reappraisals of inequality and human development that followed. In Apostles of Development: Six Economists and…
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International Organizations and the Cold War: Interview with Sandrine Kott
The Cold War is often remembered as a period defined by geopolitical rivalry and ideological division between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet, beneath this surface of conflict, the postwar…
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The League of Nations and International Trade in the Interwar Period: Interview with Madeleine Dungy
The First World War marked a turning point in the legal and geopolitical order that had shaped international trade since the nineteenth century. In the decades that followed, the interwar period became…
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Hayek’s Bastards and the Global Origins of the Far Right: An Interview with Quinn Slobodian.
“A frontlash, not a backlash against capitalism”: Discussing Hayek’s Bastards with Quinn Slobodian. One of the defining questions of our time is the extent to which the new forms of populism are…
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The Political Economy of Interventionism and Arbitration: A Conversation Between Edward Jones Corredera and Allison Powers
Edward Jones Corredera (EJC) and Allison Powers (AP) have each respectively recently published Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America and Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the…
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Rethinking the End of the Empire and the Birth of the Nation: An interview with Lynn Tesser
The Modern Period since the French Revolution has seen the progressive emergence and consolidation of an international order of Nation-States, first in Europe and then in the globe. As self-evident as it…