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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813416203321

Autore

Steil Benn

Titolo

Financial statecraft : the role of financial markets in American foreign policy / / Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-72202-2

9786611722029

0-300-12826-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LitanRobert E. <1950->

Disciplina

332/.0424

Soggetti

Financial institutions - United States

Capital movements - Government policy - United States

International finance

International relations

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Council on Foreign Relations / Brookings Institution Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is financial statecraft? -- Of banks and bombs -- Banking and foreign policy -- Finance and the "war on terror" -- Capital markets sanctions -- Of currencies and crises -- The security dimensions of currency crises -- The economics of financial crises -- Global capital flows and U.S. foreign policy -- The future of financial statecraft.

Sommario/riassunto

As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments-most notably the United States-came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders. Nearly