Quentin Bruneau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. His book, States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New (Columbia University Press, 2023), explores the transformation of sovereign lending from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

November 22, 2025

Analysis

Between Capitalism and the State-System

Great powers and the making of international relations

The relation between states and markets underpins nearly every major challenge of our time, from climate change, to war, to austerity and sovereign debt.