Christian Ruth is a historian of American diplomacy, the global economy, and the history of ideas. He is currently an America in the World Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Florida. His first book is 'One-Third Rich and Two-Thirds Hungry: Development and Neoliberalism in the Late Cold War', (Cambridge University Press, 2026). He is currently working on a book about the history of American monarchist movements and the way modern monarchism connects to postliberal and illiberal thought in the modern day.