400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). A conversation on @voelkerrechtsblog.org with @edjonesc.bsky.social and Mark Somos (@mpil.de), two of the editors of The Unseen History of International Law
(@oxfordacademic.bsky.social 2025)

voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-politics...

Today in our LMU global history seminar: a joint event with the early modern historians, at which @edjonesc.bsky.social will talk about faith, debt, and moral bankruptcy in Latin America. This should be very interesting!

Surprised more people aren't talking about how an anxious culture and a crisis of masculinity fuelled the emergence of McKinley's imperialism (Hoganson's book is a banger)

At last, we've gathered together 5 years worth of texts, podcasts, and artworks about the uni currency project into a single, easily-accessible webpage. Check it out when you have a moment.

Boston crowd - I will be at BU tomorrow at 4pm! Come along!

Big thanks to @andreimamolea.bsky.social for putting together a great programme

Peeps in NYC, I will be presenting Odious Debt at noon at the CUNY Graduate Centre on Friday - come along 👇

historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2-21-odious-...

Peeps in NYC, I will be presenting Odious Debt at noon at the CUNY Graduate Centre on Friday - come along 👇

historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2-21-odious-...

“There’s a big question here as to how we go from a world where only merchants can seek respite from being attacked and hounded by their creditors by appealing to this mechanism called bankruptcy to one where nations are invaded over default.”

Great episode.

I had an excellent conversation with @edjonesc.bsky.social on the podcast this month about his new book. What I especially appreciate in Ed's work is his attention to how religious values & theological debates play constitutive roles in the history of political economy. Check it out!

Why do insolvent investors have more rights than insolvent nations? And what has religion got to do with debt?

Check out my chat with Scott and Money on the Left - this one was a lot of fun! And follow @moneyontheleft.bsky.social for their thought-provoking content

See you all later today!

Join us at the book launch of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP)!

12 December 2024 at 12:30 (hybrid format)

At the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

With Julia McClure and Juan Pablo Scarfi!

Registration below 👇

Join us at the book launch of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP)!

12 December 2024 at 12:30 (hybrid format)

At the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

With Julia McClure and Juan Pablo Scarfi!

Registration below 👇

Hello new followers!

My book Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America just came out! academic.oup.com/book/58846

Over the next few days I will use this 🧵 to praise the ideas/books of others - friends, mentors, and enemies - that informed my own

Stay tuned!

On Monday Jeremy Adelman and I will discuss my forthcoming book on odious debt in Latin America

16 October at the Monday Seminar in Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

All welcome!