Quentin Bruneau
Assistant Professor of Politics
Email
bruneauq@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Quentin Bruneau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.
His research focuses on two broad areas. The first is international political economy, and particularly the historical development of international finance from the nineteenth century to the present day. His second area of interest is the history and theory of international relations.
His first book, States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New (Columbia University Press, 2022), explores the transformation of sovereign lending from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Before coming to New York, he obtained a D.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford (2016), as well as an M.Phil. (2012) from the same institution, and a B.Sc. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal (2010).
Degrees Held
D.Phil. International Relations, University of Oxford, 2016.
M.Phil. International Relations, University of Oxford, 2012.
B.Sc. Political Science, Université de Montréal, 2010.
Professional Affiliation
International Studies Association (ISA)
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Member-at-Large in the Historical International Relations section (2022-2024)
European International Studies Association (EISA)
Recent Publications
Book
States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, December 2022).
Articles
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
'The Long Nineteenth Century,' in The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations, edited by Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming June 2023).
'Constructivism: History and Systemic Change,' in Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, edited by Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa-Lopez, and Halvard Leira (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 80-89.
Research Interests
Theory of international relations; history of modern international relations; international political economy (especially finance from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period); global and imperial history; the role of knowledge in international relations.
Awards And Honors
Faculty Fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST), The New School, 2022-2023.
Faculty Fellow at the Heilbroner Centre for Capitalism Studies, The New School, 2022-2023.
Portfolio
https://www.quentinbruneau.com