Currency and Coercion
Regular price
€74.99
A01=Jonathan Kirshner
Agadir Crisis
Author_Jonathan Kirshner
Balance of trade
Bandwagoning
Bank
Capital flight
Category=KCBM
Category=KCL
Category=KCP
Central bank
Charles P. Kindleberger
Commodity
Consideration
Currency
Currency intervention
Depreciation
Devaluation
Economic cost
Economic diplomacy
Economic equilibrium
Economic policy
Economic power
Economic sanctions
Economics
Economy
Entrapment
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Exchange rate
Exchange-rate regime
Fiat money
Finance
Financial crisis
Foreign exchange market
Foreign policy
Gold as an investment
Gold standard
Hard currency
Harvard University
Hjalmar Schacht
Inflation
Interest rate
International economics
International finance
International monetary systems
International relations
John Maynard Keynes
Market (economics)
Market economy
Market value
Monetary authority
Monetary policy
Monetary system
Money
National security
Payment
Political economy
Precious metal
Purchasing power
Recession
Rhodesia
Robert Keohane
Seigniorage
Shortage
Speculation
Sterling area
Tax
United States
War
Warfare
Wealth
World currency
World economy
World Politics
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691016269
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Jonathan Kirshner here examines how states can and have used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner lays the groundwork for the study of what he calls monetary power by providing a taxonomy of the forms that such power can take and of the conditions under which it can have effect. He then establishes the actual existence of monetary power by showing how the taxonomy is supported by the historical record, including cases from nations from all over the globe and throughout the twentieth century. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use. Kirshner thus succeeds in developing a generalized framework for the analysis of an important yet neglected form of state power that is likely to be of increasing importance in the post-Cold War era. Although some distinguished scholars have touched on the issue of monetary power, there has been until now no standard text on the subject.
Integrating security studies and international political economy, this book is a timely synthesis that will be important to the entire discipline of international relations.
Jonathan Kirshner is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University.
