Explores issues in financing retirement, from fundamental changes in types of pension plans offered to pension funds' investment strategies following the global financial crisis. Focuses in particular on the adequacy of individuals' and institutions' plans in the face of increasing life...

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 --...

"Analyzes the efficacy of attempts to recover from past crises and their lessons for the future, assesses the current state of international financial markets and examines policy options for reducing systemic vulnerability, and addresses pension system reform"--Provided by publisher