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Author Viotti, Paul R., author.

Title The dollar and national security : the monetary component of hard power / Paul R. Viotti
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)
Contents Introduction : money and security -- Part one. The European center : sterling, the dollar and security before World War II. Money, empire and pre-war security -- Wartime security and monetary exchange in the Great War -- Restoring sterling, commerce and security after World War I -- Part two. The United States moves to the center : dollar primacy and American national security. Money and cooperative security, the inter-war years and World War II -- Cold War and the Bretton Woods years -- Sustaining dollar primacy : from Bretton Woods to managed flexibility -- The euro, the dollar and cooperative security -- Conclusion : economy, money and the politics of national security
Summary In The Dollar and National Security, Paul Viotti explores the links between global capital flows, policy elites, and national security. After establishing the historical link between currency, gold, and security, he continues the monetary-security story by examining the instrumental role the dollar has played in American economic and national security over the past seven decades. He reveals how perceived individual and collective interests are the key drivers toward building the kind of durable consensus necessary to sustain the external financing of American foreign and national security policy, and addresses the future implications for national security as decision-makers in the BRICs and other countries position themselves to assume an even larger policy presence in global commercial, monetary, and security matters. --Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-205) and index
Notes English
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Subject National security -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
Foreign exchange -- United States -- History
Monetary policy -- United States -- History
Dollar, American -- History
National security -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History
Foreign exchange -- Europe -- History
Monetary policy -- Europe -- History
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Dollar, American
Foreign exchange
Monetary policy
National security -- Economic aspects
Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804792301
0804792305