Category: Interviews
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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UN Peacekeeping or the Reinvention of Colonialism? An Interview with Margot Tudor.
Traditional historiography has regarded the UN Peacekeeping missions as the liberal international order’s initiative to mediate the conflicts of the postcolonial world and avoid escalation…
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Colonizing Kashmir: An interview with Hafsa Kanjwal
Joining a new wave of critical scholarship on global decolonization, Hafsa Kanjwal’s 2023 monograph Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press) offers a…
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Historicizing a planetary future: A discussion with Emma Rothschild on the convergence of climate science and historical thinking in the “1800 Histories” project.
TPF Executive board members Glenda Sluga and Heidi J.S. Tworek interviewed Emma Rothschild on her latest project “1800 Histories”; a collaborative effort to bring together…