Quentin Bruneau
Associate Professor of Politics
Email
bruneauq@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Quentin Bruneau is an Associate 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, 2023), explores the transformation of sovereign lending from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It was awarded the Francesco Guicciardini Prize (2025) for Best Book in Historical International Relations by the International Studies Association (ISA).
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)
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Co-chair, Committee for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations
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, 2023).
Articles
Bartelson's Translatio Imperii, Global Intellectual History, 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
'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, 2023), pp. 454-468.
'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.
Book Reviews
'Book Review: Eric Helleiner, The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press),' CBHA/ACHA The Prospectus (July 2024).
Outreach
'Why we're not re-living the interwar years -- we're back in the 19th century', Public Seminar, 20January 2017.
Research Interests
History of international relations; history of international political and legal thought; International Relations theory; international political economy (especially finance from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period); global and imperial history.
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