Sovereign Debt Diplomacies : Rethinking sovereign debt from colonial empires to hegemony

• Other Authors: PENET, PIERRE (Editor), Flores Zendejas, Juan (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2021
• Subjects: Economics; Macroeconomics; Public finance; Sovereign debt, debt defaults, debt restructurings, legal clauses, bondholder committees, World War 2, colonial history, informal empires, odious debt, hegemony
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• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (384 p.)
• ISBN: oso/9780198866350.001.0001
• Access: Open Access

This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First, it provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability, acceptability and efficacy. We argue that creditors' tactics and methods to enforce debt repayment emerged and solidified to a large extent in relation to the threads of colonial history, from the building of empires to the decolonisation era. Second, this volume reflects critically on the relevance of neo-colonial interpretations in recent cases of sovereign debt disputes