The Dollar and national security : the monetary component of hard power / Paul R. Viotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viotti, Paul R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Economic aspects--United States--History.

National security.

Foreign exchange--United States--History.

Foreign exchange.

Monetary policy--United States--History.

Monetary policy.

History.

National security--Economic aspects.

Dollar, American.

United States.

Dollar, American--History.

National security--Economic aspects--Europe--History.

Foreign exchange--Europe--History.

Monetary policy--Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxi, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

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, in the process 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : money and security

Part One. The European Center: Sterling, the Dollar and Security Before World War II. Money, empire and prewar 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 dollar, the euro, and cooperative security

Conclusion : economy, money and the politics of national security.

Notes:

"Stanford security studies."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.

ISBN:

9780804791137

0804791139

9780804792257

0804792259

OCLC:

880237494