By Odette Lienau
Why will we imagine that sovereign debt needs to be repaid--even after a tremendous regime change--in order to take care of nation creditworthiness? In a desirable and hugely unique ebook, Odette Lienau argues that this traditional knowledge is overly simplistic and in a few respects totally fallacious. utilizing circumstances and institutional research drawn from around the final century--from the Soviet repudiation of tsarist loans to Iraq's debt restructuring after the autumn of Saddam Hussein--Lienau demanding situations what she calls the norm of debt continuity, and contends that its underlying assumptions of political neutrality, creditor uniformity, and ancient fidelity all fall away upon nearer inspection.
Through a cosmopolitan account of the fashionable sovereign debt regime, the booklet asserts that debt continuity isn't crucial for functioning overseas capital markets, and demonstrates the way it depends upon rules of absolutist govt that experience come below hearth over the past century. Lienau features a wealth of unique learn to argue that creditor uniformity can't easily be assumed, and that during truth diversified collectors may perhaps view--and traditionally have viewed--the similar debt repudiation in opposing ways. She argues that the consolidation of compensation norms in the course of the 20th century and into the twenty-first resulted now not from monetary inevitabilities yet fairly from altering political and ideological buildings, shifts in creditor interactions, and judgements made by way of deepest industry actors and significant associations corresponding to the realm financial institution. Taken as an entire, the result's a extraordinary reconstruction of overseas finance and a strong problem to triumphing expectancies in sovereign debt.
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Other lenders constitute a second threat, as a healthy credit market is driven partially by competition between suppliers of credit for the same borrowing client. 15 How might this framework interact with questions of sovereign legitimacy to strengthen or weaken the norm of repayment in international debt? 16 This effectively adopts and strengthens the purely statist political framework of sovereignty that coincides with such a practice. This creditor approach should be more likely to emerge when the market is consolidated, that is, when the underlying material and social structures of creditor interactions encourage more unified interests and risk interpretations.
Or in the preferred metaphor of international relations theory, this account of sovereignty conceives of the state as a “unitary black box” whose internal machinations are irrelevant to its foreign interactions. 38 This principle of recognizing sovereign governments on the basis of command or effective control was accepted as a central principle of modern international law by early members of the Permanent Court of International Justice. For example, J. B. Moore, a prominent American jurist and member of the Court, wrote in the early 1900s, The origin and organization of government are questions generally of internal discussion and decision.
47 40 r e t hink in g s o v er e i gn d e b t The Financial Times continues the trend into the twenty-fi rst century in its insistence—without irony—that we avoid “theological” discussion and simply accept the eternal nature of states for the purposes of enforcing debt obligations. At least in contemporary international fi nancial circles, the innovation of late medieval jurists lives on. Notwithstanding its remarkable resilience, the theoretical innovation of unbroken sovereignty did not stand alone in the early modern tradition of Western political thought.