The dollar and national security: the monetary component of hard power

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.