Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : money and security
  • Part 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.