Bucking the buck : US financial sanctions and the international backlash against the dollar /

"The US dollar is the world's indispensable currency. The dollar's preeminent status gives the United States enormous coercive powers which it flexes in the form of financial sanctions to punish its adversaries. Over the last twenty years, Washington has relied on financial sanctions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McDowell, Daniel (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Economic sanctions, American. Dollar, American. Monetary policy. International finance. United States > Foreign economic relations. Sanctions économiques américaines. Dollar américain. Politique monétaire. Dollar, American Economic sanctions, American International economic relations International finance Monetary policy United States Economics. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Financial sanctions and political risk in the international currency system
The source and exercise of American financial power
Sanctions, political risk, and the reserve currency role
The anti-dollar gold rush : central bank reserves in the age of financial sanctions
Sanctions, political risk, and the dollar as international payments currency
Payment politics : anti-dollar responses to sanctions in trade settlement
Financial sanctions and the dollar's rivals
Sanctions and China's play for payments power.