Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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It’s been a whirlwind since Pax Economica was published in the USA in late February, and hopefully more to come after today, the official publication day for the UK/Europe.

I am truly grateful for all the support, endorsements, and reviews that Pax Economica has already received from across the political spectrum, including making the New Yorker’s “Best Books” 2024 list.

In case Forum readers are interested, included below are details regarding some upcoming book events for April and early June, including the UK book launch on Wed, April 24 (5pm) hosted by the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Also, I am based in Venice, Italy, until early June, so for any interested Italian subscribers to the Forum, please just get in touch via email. I’d be delighted to visit and discuss the book.

In case you missed it

*Pax Economica has been positively reviewed in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, Bloomberg, The Critic, and Jacobin.

*I wrote a piece for Time Magazine on the forgotten left-wing anti-imperial origins of the world’s most popular modern boardgame, Monopoly; for Le Monde, as part of a special debate forum on the controversial EU-Canadian Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); as well as for UnHerd, the LPE Project, History Matters, and the Page 99 Test.

*I’ve enjoyed many conversations about the book, all currently available online, including with Tim Brinkhof at the Big Think; Joy LaClaire at Forthright Radio; Seokju Oh at the Toynbee Prize Foundation; Thomas Kingston at New Books Network; Fernando Arteaga at Penn’s Exchange; Michael Cullinane at The Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Richard Toye at the Imperial & Global Forum, and Dan Bessner and Derek Davison at American Prestige (forthcoming soon).And on 17 April, I had a great conversation with academics associated with the PEC Research Seminar and the Jean Monnet Centre, University of Manchester.

*Pax Economica got a nice shout out from Dani Rodrik in “The Two Faces of Free Trade” over at Project Syndicate, Adam Tooze’s Chartbook, and from Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution (“The Gershwins on Free Trade (That Was Then, This is Now).”

Upcoming book events

*Wed. April 24 — official UK book launch event, hosted by the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

*Tue. April 30 — Global Economic History Seminar, University of Cambridge.

*Sat. June 15 — “Roundtable: Reordering the 20^th-Century Global Economy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference, Toronto.