Sovereign debt diplomacies : rethinking sovereign debt from colonial empires to hegemony This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First it provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability acceptability and efficacy. We argue that creditors’ tactics and methods to enforce debt repayment emerged and solidified to a large extent in relation to the threads of colonial history from the building of empires to the decolonisation era. Second this volume reflects critically on the relevance of neo colonial interpretations in recent cases of sovereign debt disputes