Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What Is Financial Statecraft? -- Part I. Of Banks and Bombs -- 2. Banking and Foreign Policy -- 3. Finance and the "War on Terror" -- 4. Capital Markets Sanctions -- Part II. Of Currencies and Crises -- 5. The Security Dimensions of Currency Crises --...