Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy

by Robert E. Litan and Benn Steil

Book Overview

As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments--most notably the United States--came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300138415
• ISBN13: 9780300138412
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"