Publications

Books

States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022). Studies in International Order and Politics series.

  • Awarded the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations (2025) by the International Studies Association.

  • Finalist for the British International Studies Association (BISA) Prize for best book in the field of International Political Economy (2023)

  • New Books Network podcast, Wohlstand für Alle podcast (video version), Public Seminar interview

  • Reviews: Survival, H-Diplo, Finance & Society, International Affairs

  • Forthcoming forum in Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Articles

Forum on Rating Politics: The Political Thought of Sovereign Raters, Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, forthcoming.

Three Histories of the System of States, International Politics, forthcoming (with Claire Vergerio).

Rethinking International Order in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from Courtly Ceremonial, International Organization 77, no. 4 (2023), 691-720.

In the Club: How and Why Central Bankers created a Hierarchy of Sovereign Borrowers, ca. 1988-2007, Review of International Political Economy 30, no. 1 (2023), 153-175. 

Converging Paths: Bounded Rationality, Practice Theory and the Study of Change in Historical International Relations, International Theory 14, no. 1 (2022), 88-114. 

Book chapters

Constructivism: History and Systemic Change, in Julia Costa-Lopez, Benjamin Carvalho, and Halvard Leira (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 80-89.

The Long Nineteenth Century, in Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Christian Reus-Smit, and Maja Spanu (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming), pp. 454-468.

Outreach

Between capitalism and the states-system, Phenomenal World, 22 November 2025.

Only states can wage war, and why it matters, The Institute of Art and Ideas, 20 August 2024.

Why we're not re-living the interwar years -- we're back in the 19th century, Public Seminar, 20 January 2017.

Book reviews

Bartelson’s translatio imperii: Becoming International, by Jens Bartelson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 281 pp., £26.99.’, Global Intellectual History, forthcoming.

Book review: Eric Helleiner, The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), CBHA/ACHA The Prospectus(July 2024).

Working papers

Beyond Westphalia: States, International Law, and the Monopolization of the Right to Wage War (with Claire Vergerio)

Central Banks and the Construction of International Financial Hierarchy