TY - BOOK ID - 30704524 TI - Dollar and National Security : The Monetary Component of Hard Power PY - 2014 SN - 0804792305 0804791139 9780804792301 9780804791137 9780804792257 0804792259 PB - Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dollar, American -- History. KW - Foreign exchange -- Europe -- History. KW - Foreign exchange -- United States -- History. KW - Monetary policy -- Europe -- History. KW - Monetary policy -- United States -- History. KW - National security -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History. KW - National security -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History. KW - National security KW - Foreign exchange KW - Monetary policy KW - Dollar, American KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - History KW - Economic aspects KW - Cambistry KW - Currency exchange KW - Exchange, Foreign KW - Foreign currency KW - Foreign exchange problem KW - Foreign money KW - Forex KW - FX (Finance) KW - International exchange KW - International finance KW - Currency crises KW - National security policy KW - NSP (National security policy) KW - Security policy, National KW - Economic policy KW - International relations KW - Military policy KW - American dollar KW - Money KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Dollar [American] KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30704524 AB - Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are drawn, but also to the viability of global convertibility and exchange arrangements. Although the general public has a stake in these economic matters, the interests and interpretive understandings held by policy elites matter most-in particular those among the owners or managers of capital who focus ER -