Edward Jones Corredera
@EdJonesC
Historian @UNED | Odious Debt @OxUniPress | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: @Cambridge_Uni & @LSEnews
Book cover for Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America is out! A history of how sin and redemption shaped policies of debt repudiation in the Spanish Empire and modern Latin America (c. 1550s-1907) More info coming soon!

From this month onwards I’ll be writing regular contributions for @nytopinion, with pieces on Europe and more. First piece on continental rearmament should appear soon. nytimes.com/by/anton-j-ger
400 Years of Hugo Grotius’ De Iure Belli Ac Pacis. Great interview with @EdJonesC and @msomos hosted by @HendrikPSimon at @Voe_Blog : voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-politics-o…
Book Launch hosted by the Peace Palace Library: 'The Unseen History of International Law', 17 June 2025 peacepalacelibrary.nl/event/2025/boo… Edward Jones Corredera and Mark Somos, two of the co-authors, will introduce the book and answer questions.
So happy that it is finally publication day for the Cambridge Handbook of Global Financial Infrastructure! My chapter is on some of the first efforts to wire together financial markets in the age of the telegraph. The book is entirely open access (link below)
Excited to speak at the @MCGlobalHistory Seminar in Munich on Monday! Come along if you're around

Thanks to @boyd_vandijk for the invitation to write about how multilateral diplomacy can be revived through the creation of fairer global rules on debt for the @OxGlobalOrders And thanks to @AndresRuoj for his insights - go check out his work!
As the term begins, we've an intriguing new CGO blog post by @EdJonesC on Latin America and the dynamics of debt diplomacy. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/what-d…
Check out this transcript of my chat with Allison Powers about her new book, Arbitrating Empire, which is really great!
toynbeeprize.org/posts/the-poli… @EdJonesC and Allison Powers discuss Interventionism and Arbitration in histories of political economy, now on the @ToynbeePrize blog.
¡Un placer poder participar en el Seminario de Historia de Conceptos Económicos de Iberconceptos en el CIDE en una hora! Nos vemos a las 10:00 (CDMX) y 17:00 (CET) 🕰️👇
¡En un rato tenemos a @EdJonesC con nosotros en el Seminario de Historia de Conceptos Económicos en el CIDE! Aquí se va a poder seguir en directo: youtube.com/live/P1qYzWEi9…
¡Gente querida, tenemos nueva sesión del seminario de Conceptos económicos-Iberconceptos! El próximo 25 de abril (10:00 am CDMX) discutiremos con Edward Jones-Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) el concepto de deuda.
In the age of the bankrupt-in-chief, I wrote about how the language of bankruptcy came to dominate international relations for @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis/regim…
Dutch friends! Join us tomorrow at 4pm at the Institute for the History of International Law at Tilburg University @TilburgLaw I will be speaking with Emily Sipiorski and Zülâl Muslu about Odious Debt More details below!

Friends, Allison Powers Useche will be giving a book talk, “Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law,” today at 4:00 in the Riverside Room of 121 Bay State Road in Boston. Please join us.
It’s my edited volume, The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (co-edited with David Sheinin), 3rd year birthday! The book generated resonances and discussions among IR scholars, and global and Intellectual historians.
1) Today is the publication day of my book, The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations, co-edited with my colleague David Sheinin. The idea of this book emerged out from our previous edited volumes on Pan-Americanism. 1/5 routledge.com/The-New-Pan-Am…
Todo un privilegio poder charlar sobre Odious Debt en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM @IIJUNAM con @tanixchel, @elisaove y compañía Nos vemos mañana 25 de marzo por Zoom o a través de YouTube ⚖️
Feliz de estar mañana en la presentación del libro de @EdJonesC en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la hashtag#UNAM mañana a las 12.00 hora CdMX 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
For applied history aficionados: over the weekend I came across a fascinating article by William Keylor in Diplomatic History on an earlier period of major transatlantic tensions over cultural, financial & collective security-related issues. A short thread (1/10)