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2025 Toynbee Prize Lecture: Sunil Amrith, "Whose Planetary Consciousness?"

The 2025-26 Toynbee Prize Winner Sunil Amrith (Yale University) delivered the Toynbee Prize Lecture at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, organised in collaboration with the International Thinking and Planetary Futures Research Cluster, on May 12, 2025.

Interviews

Brazil, Portugal, and Authoritarian Development: An Interview with Melissa Teixeira

During the interwar years, intellectuals across Europe and Latin America sought alternatives to both liberal capitalism and revolutionary socialism.

The Blog

Moral Economy in the Spanish Empire and Latin America: New Histories of Capitalism in the Spanish-Speaking World

In this discussion, Glauber Wisniewski interviews Edward Jones Corredera and Julia McClure on their two recent books on ideas of moral economy in early modern Spain and Latin America. Julia McClure is the author of Empire of Poverty:

Interviews

The Many Lives of Development Economics: An Interview with David Engerman

Development economics has lived many lives—ranging from the technocratic optimism of the postwar era to the critical reappraisals of inequality and human development that followed. In Apostles of Development:

Announcing our 2024-25 First Book Workshop Competition Winner

Burak Sayım … We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition is Burak Sayım. His book project, The Making of Communism in the Middle East:

Interviews

International Organizations and the Cold War: Interview with Sandrine Kott

The Cold War is often remembered as a period defined by geopolitical rivalry and ideological division between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet, beneath this surface of conflict, the postwar era was also marked by remarkable international cooperation.

Toynbee Prize Announcements

Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26

We are pleased to announce that the First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 is now open for applications! The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support early career scholars in global history at a pivotal moment in their scholarly trajectory.

The Foundation

The Toynbee Prize Foundation — a Hub for Global History

Named after Arnold J.Toynbee, the Toynbee Prize Foundation was chartered in 1987 “to contribute to the development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical view of human society and of human and social problems.” The Foundation seeks to promote scholarly engagement with global history.

Toynbee Prize Announcements | December 1, 2025

2025 Toynbee Prize Lecture: Sunil Amrith, "Whose Planetary Consciousness?"

The Blog | April 22, 2025

The Political Economy of Interventionism and Arbitration: A Conversation Between Edward Jones Corredera and Allison Powers

Edward Jones Corredera (EJC) and Allison Powers (AP) have each respectively recently published Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America and Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law , both with Oxford University Press.

Interviews | November 28, 2025

Brazil, Portugal, and Authoritarian Development: An Interview with Melissa Teixeira

During the interwar years, intellectuals across Europe and Latin America sought alternatives to both liberal capitalism and revolutionary socialism.

Quote of the month

“…even the nation—super-relevant, super-charged—is itself the effect of global processes, and not some product of what we may call an auto-poietic process that emerges from the inside of the society, sticks out the grounds for a national identity, and then agrees to lock arms with other nations and societies in the creation of something called international. The causality goes the other way around.”
Toynbee Prize Foundation Trustee Jeremy Adelman

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