B. Peter Rosendorff

Professor of Politics, New York University

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Sovereign Debt

SPIA on Choice of Borrowing Instruments

Foreign Policy on IMF and Austerity

Transparency

The Economist on Transparency in Africa during the Pandemic

El Comercial (Peru) on Fake News

Foco Economica (Portugal) on Fake News

Minnesota Public Radio on Transparency

Global Policy Journal on Measuring Transparency

Journalists’ Resource on Measuring TransparencySarah Bauerle at the IPE@UNC on the Democracy and Transparency paper. 

Convention Against Torture

Counterintuitive, Episode 2: Wind of No Change – Power, Communication, and the Race to Stand Still, a podcast on the CAT paper, on Muammar al-Ghaddafi and human rights abuses after signing the CAT.  

Sydney Morning Herald on Assad and Chemical Weapons

Washington Post on Assad and Chemical Weapons

Africa Horn Now on Dictators and the CAT

Boston Globe on the CAT Paper

Bookforum on CAT Paper and Transparency

China Economic Review on Trade and Democracy

Politics, Arts and Philosophy Blog on the CAT paper.

Economist revisits the CAT Paper

Kindred Winecoff at the IPE@UNC on the CAT Paper

Bill Petti at Duck of Minerva on the CAT Paper

Anthony Clark Arend on the CAT Paper

The Vreelander on the CAT Paper

The Economist on the CAT Paper

Monkey Cage on CAT Paper

Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic on the CAT paper

Capitol Hill Cubans on CAT Paper

Terrorism

VoxEU on Terrorism

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita at DanielDrezner.com on Terrorism Scholarship

Other

Los Angeles Times on the 1994 World Cup

Los Angeles Times on NAFTA

NYU Sovereign Debt Network

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Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab

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Global Research in International Political Economy

The GRIPE weekly webinar information and schedule can be found here.

Seasons 1-5 are archived here.

Cofounded by Layna Mosley, Stephanie Rickard and Peter Rosendorff

NEW: HRV2 Transparency Index

HRV2 has been released. Now 149 countries, 1980-2015.

Click here for access to the entire dataset.

Click here for an awesome visualization tool of the HRV Data.

Recent Commentary

Good to Know: Sovereign debt. Sovereign borrowing is central to what governments do – but increasingly costly, even for wealthy democracies (with Layna Mosley), Good Authority, January 2025.

Sri Lanka Can’t Count on China to Solve its Debt Problems (with Layna Mosley), Washington Post, Monkey Cage, September 2022.

The G-20 Common Framework Needs Upgrades to Prevent a Global Debt Crisis  (with Layna Mosley), World Politics Review, August 2022.  

What’s Next for Global Economic Governance? Domestic Politics and Deglobalization (with Layna Mosley), The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, July 2022. 

The Backlash Against Globalization: What’s Next?, Conference Report, June 2022

I Will Survive: the Domestic Politics of Debt (with Layna Mosley), Sovereign Debt, Suspended, Just Money, April 2022

Governments Use International Organizations to Hide Contentious Foreign Policies,  Journal of Politics Blogpost, 2022

PROFESSOR

Wilf Family Department of Politics
New York University
19 West 4th St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
+1 212 998 8173

peter.rosendorff@nyu.edu

HRV Transparency Index

The HRV Index of Transparency is available

HRVTRANSPARENCY.ORG

Click here for an awesome visualization tool of the HRV Data.

GRIPE WEBINAR

Click here for the Global Research in International Political Economy (GRIPE) webinar and website, Seasons 1-5.

Click here for Current Seasons.

Most Recent Publications

T. Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz and B. Peter Rosendorff. 2025. A Theory of Trade Policy Transitions. Journal of Historical Political Economy 4(4):471-507.

Mosley, Layna, and B. Peter Rosendorff. 2024. A Domestic Political Economy of Package Treaties. World Trade Review 23(5): 645–57.

Hollyer JR, Pang X, Rosendorff BP, Vreeland JR. 2024. Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency? Political Science Research and Methods 1-19.

Bisbee, James, and B. Peter Rosendorff. 2024. Antiglobalization sentiment: Exposure and immobility., American Journal of Political Science 1–18.

Layna Mosley , B Peter Rosendorff (2023), Government Choices of Debt Instruments , International Studies Quarterly, 67(2)

Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff (2023); The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis. Current History, 122(840): 9–14.