Economic Instruments of Security Policy: Influencing Choices of Leaders

by Gary Shiffman

Acknowledgments Forward to the Second Edition Introduction PART THE INDIVIDUAL States Don't Make Decisions; People Do Adam Smith and Twenty-first Century National Security Maximizing, Rationality, and the Bounds of Institutions Experimentation in Economic Science The Economics of Autocracies Some Are Ranchers and Some Are Wolves Predicting the A Theoretical Model Principles for Policymakers PART THE WORLD Castro's Cuba and U.S. Sanctions The Cuban Economy in the 1990s Dictating Economic Performance Truth in Advertising Democracies and the Politics of Trade Free Trade Agreements Case The PRC and Most Favored Nation Status Case Pistachios, Rugs, and Relationship-Building India and Commerce Case The PRC, Public Disclosure and Verified End Users Import Restrictions Case The PRC and non-market economies Trade as a Roundup Money and Finance as Security Tools Money Inflation Case Swiss dinars and Saddam dinars Case Internet Marketplace Case Money Laundering in Ukraine Exchange Rate Choices and National Security Choosing an Exchange Rate Case Dollarization Choosing Power Over Growth, Again Maximizing Over Time Through Lending and Borrowing International Finance Case International Financial Institutions and the East Asian Financial Crisis Case Tibet vs. the World Bank at Qinghai Sovereign Lending and Foreign Direct Investment Debt Dynamics and Debates Case Debt Forgiveness - Republic of Congo Case Did the Great Recession Change the Competitive Equation? Money, Exchange Regimes, Debt Curing Poverty Helps National Security Terrorism, Insurgency, and Poverty Theory of Growth Incentives and Growth When Countries Do Not Invest in Domestic Capacity Case The Millennium Challenge Account Case The African Growth and Opportunity Act Case Saudi Arabian Charities Case Iraq Case Syria Case Law Enforcement Against al Qaeda Case Brothers to the Rescue and the "Anti-Terrorism Amendment" to the FSIA Conclusion Appendix Endnotes

244 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2006

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