The dollar and national security : the monetary component of hard power

Paul R. Viotti

Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are drawn, but also to the viability of global convertibility and exchange arrangements. Although the general public has a stake in these economic matters, the interests and interpretive understandings held by policy elites matter most-in particular those among the owners or managers of capital who focus

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Viotti, Paul R.
Publisher:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
Subject:	Geldpolitik \| Monetary policy \| US-Dollar \| US dollar \| Wechselkurs \| Exchange rate \| Militärausgaben \| Military expenditure \| Nationale Sicherheit \| National security
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : money and securityPart 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.
ISBN:	0-8047-9230-5 ; 978-0-8047-9230-1 ; 0-8047-9113-9 ; 0-8047-9225-9 ; 978-0-8047-9113-7 ; 978-0-8047-9225-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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