Monsters to destroy : understanding the war on terror /
This study argues that the war on terror can be explained as an effort to cement the U.S. dollar as the world's foremost reserve currency by expanding American control over the global energy markets. Since the 1970s, the states of OPEC agreed to denominate their oil sales in U.S. dollars in exc...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The economic origins of the War on Terror
- Terrorism and the problem of moral hazard
- Threatening allies
- Hegemonic decline and the escalation of violence
- Conclusion: the war for exorbitant privilege.