When Nations Can't Default

ISBN-13: 9781009343923 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Simon (University of Copenhagen) Hinrichsen

Opis

What happens when countries cannot default on its debt? This history of war reparations shows that state survival trumps economics.

Recenzje

'In this insightful book, Hinrichsen analyses how and, more importantly, why war reparations have been paid, restructured, repudiated or simply ignored over the last two centuries. War reparations are unlike all other types of sovereign debt. If wars of aggression were exclusively a feature of earlier centuries, Simon Hinrichsen's book would be a fascinating study of how the monetary reparations payable to the victors in those conflicts were eventually handled. But as Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 demonstrates, unprovoked aggression is not confined to earlier centuries and the international community may soon need to grapple, yet again, with the issue of war reparations.' Lee C. Buchheit, University of Edinburgh

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. A framework for war reparations; 3. Sovereign debt; 4. Napoleonic Wars reparations; 5. Haiti indemnity and sovereign debt; 6. Franco-Prussian War indemnities; 7. Smaller 19th century war reparations; 8. German World War I reparations; 9. Russian and Bulgarian World War I reparations; 10. World War II reparations to the Soviet Bloc.