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

• Autore: Steil Benn
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 332/.0424
• Soggetto topico: Financial institutions - United States; Capital movements - Government policy - United States; International finance; International relations
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations
• Altri autori: LitanRobert E. <1950->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Financial statecraft
• ISBN: 1-281-72202-2; 9786611722029; 0-300-12826-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777789403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II