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Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
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February 2006
Academic Module
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments—most notably the United States—increasingly came 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 and sale of financial assets across borders.
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Winter 2009
Article
Harvard International Review
Benn Steil argues that the world has no attractive alternatives to the current dollar-based international monetary system, but that the dollar's days of coasting on the accomplishments of the Volcker Fed are over. The Fed must demonstrate to the world anew that the dollar is a reliable long-term store of value.
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Spring/Summer 2007
Article
cato.org
In the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of The Cato Journal, Benn Steil writes on "Federal Reserve Policy in the Face of Crisis." He argues
that the global monetary order of national fiat currencies represents the
greatest threat to globalization.
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September 2006
Article
Council on Foreign Relations
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Summer 2006
Article
The International Economy
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April 3, 2006
Article
Financial News
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January 2006
Article
Revue d'économie financière
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Winter 2005
Article
The International Economy
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August 25, 2003
Article
Securities Industry News
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April 14, 2003
Article
Securities Industry News
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April 1, 2002
Article
Journal of Portfolio Management
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December 2001
Article
Journal of Financial Transformation
September 3, 2001
Article
Securities Industry News
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April 2, 2001
Article
International Finance
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February 2001
Article
International Finance
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January 1999
Article
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services
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May 14, 2009
Audio
Listen to CFR experts Benn Steil and Sebastian Mallaby discuss the lessons learned from the current financial crisis.
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May 12, 2009
Audio
Listen to experts examine steps taken to regulate financial markets and debate whether more should be done or if some actions should be undone.
This session was part of the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power, which was made possible through the generous support of Stephen C. Freidheim.
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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