Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash against the Dollar Daniel Mcdowell

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197679889
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197679883
• Author(s): Daniel McDowell

The US dollar is the world’s indispensable currency. The dollar’s preeminent status gives the United States enormous coercive powers which it flexes in the form of financial sanctions to punish its adversaries. Over the last twenty years, Washington has relied on financial sanctions with greater and greater frequency. Bucking the Buck argues that the more the United States wields the dollar as a weapon of foreign policy, the more its adversaries will move their international economic activities into other currencies to avoid Washington’s coercive reach. Through a combination of case studies and statistical analysis, the book establishes a relationship between US financial sanctions and the rise of “anti-dollar” policies, which are designed to reduce an economy’s reliance on the US currency. Though some anti-dollar policies fail to achieve this goal, McDowell’s analysis indicates that in many cases they are successful. Patterns of “de-dollarization” following sanctions are clear. In some cases, the anticipation of future sanctions may provoke similar policy measures.

Table contents:

1. Introduction—Alien: The Evolution of the Franchise
2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A Sense of Abjection Regarding “the Perfect Organism”
3. Fractal Patterns Out of Chaos in Ridley Scott’s Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant
4. The Progeny of H. R. Giger
5. The Unescapable Labyrinth: Archetypal Retrogression and Aesthetic Rigidity in Alien3
6. “Building Better Worlds”: The Rise of Alien’s Online Marketing Campaigns
7. “What the Hell Is That?”: A Transmedial Approach to Taxonomic Ambiguity and Horror Affect in the Alien Franchise
8. From Personal Files to Blueprints: Exploring the Alien Universe through Epistolary Paratexts
9. “Must Be a Chick Thing”: Ripley, the Alien Franchise and the Female Gothic
10. Making the Mother: Pro/Creation and Female Agency in the Alien Series
11. Melodrama of the Unknown Woman Lost in Space: A Cavellian Reading of the Alien Franchise
12. Remediating Ripley: Negotiating the Patriarchal Gaze in the Alien Franchise Video Games
13. Hissing in the Air Vents: Decoding the Narrative-Verse of Alien: Isolation (2014)
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