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.
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