Quentin Bruneau, Author at Public Seminar

Interviews

Understanding Sovereign Lending

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

March 1, 2023 • by Quentin Bruneau and Zoe Cole

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....

Statistics as a Form of Knowledge

An excerpt from Quentin Bruneau’s States and the Masters of Capital

March 1, 2023 • by Quentin Bruneau

An excerpt from Quentin Bruneau's States and the Masters of Capital...

Why We’re Not Re-living The Interwar Years

We’re back in the 19th century

January 20, 2017 • by Quentin Bruneau

In many accounts, the historical parallel between our time and the interwar period refers to both the economic conditions of the two periods, i.e. a major international economic crisis, and to a lesser extent, to the political situation, namely the rise of far right and far left parties. This analogy, like ...