Benjamin J. Cohen

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Contact Phone

805-568-0068 (home)
805-570-4199 (cell)

Specialization

International Relations, International Political Economy

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963

Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy (1991-2021)

Bio

Professor Cohen, a specialist in international political economy, joined the department in 1991. He previously taught at Princeton University from 1964-1971 and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 1971-1991.  He retired from UCSB in 2021.

His publications have addressed issues of international monetary relations, U.S. foreign economic policy, currency integration, sovereign debt, theories of economic imperialism, and the history of the discipline of international political economy.  He is the author of eighteen books.  His newest book, Rethinking International Political Economy, was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2022.

Course Materials

Projects

Publications

Working Papers

 

 

 

In Press

 

 

Recent Publications


The International Monetary System

"Currency Power and International Security," Fletcher Security Review, 8: 1 (2021).

Reflections on Liberal and Monetary Orders,” International Studies Perspectives, 21: 2 (May 2020).

" What Does the International Currency System Really Look Like?," with Tabitha Benney, Review of International Political Economy (2014).

" The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order," in David Held and Charles Rogers (eds.), Global Governance at Risk (Polity Press, 2013).

" Global Turmoil: The International Monetary System Today," ADBI Working Paper No. 1 (2013).

"Toward a Leaderless Currency World,"
in Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds.), The Future of the Dollar (Cornell University Press, 2009).

"The International Monetary System: Diffusion and Ambiguity,"
International Affairs ( 2008).

Global Monetary Governance
(Routledge Publishers, 2008).
 


International Currency Theory

Currency Statecraft: Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition  (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry (Princeton University Press, 2015).

" Currency and State Power," in Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein (eds.), Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013).

"The Benefits and Costs of an International Currency:
Getting the Calculus Right,"

Open Economies Review (2012).


The Dollar and the Euro

" Why Can't Europe Save Itself? A Note on a Structural Failure," Contemporary Politics (2015).

" The Demise of the Dollar? Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est Pareil...," Revue de la Regulation (2015).

" The Future of the Euro: Let's Get Real," Review of International Political Economy (2012).

The Future of Global Currency: The Euro versus the Dollar (Routledge Publishers, 2011).

"Dollar Dominance, Euro Aspirations: Recipe for Discord?"
Journal of Common Market Studies (2009).

"A One-and-a-Half Currency System"
with Paola Subacchi, Journal of International Affairs (2008).

"The Euro in a Global Context: Challenges and Capacities"
in Kenneth Dyson (ed.), The Euro at Ten: Europeanization, Power, and Convergence (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

"Is the Euro Ready for 'Prime Time'?"
(Chatham House Briefing Paper,
with Paola Subacchi, July 2008).

"Enlargement the International Role of the Euro"
Review of International Political Economy (2007).


Asia, China, and the Yuan

" Will History Repeat Itself? Lessons for the Yuan, "in Barry Eichengreen and Masahiro Kawai (eds.), Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges (Asian Development Bank Institute and Brookings Institution, 2015).

" The China Question: Can Its Rise be Accommodated?," in Jonathan Kirshner and Eric Helleiner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014).

Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia, co-edited with Eric M.P. Chiu (Routledge, 2014).

" Finance and Security in East Asia," in Avery Goldstein and Edward D. Mansfield (eds.), The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2012).

"The Yuan Tomorrow? Evaluating China's Currency Internationalization Strategy"
New Political Economy (2012).

"Security Still Trumps Finance in East Asia"
Global Asia (2011).

"After the Fall: East Asian Exchange Rates Since the Crisis"
in Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill (eds.), Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy
(Cornell University Press, 2008).


The Study of International Political Economy

Rethinking Internatonal Political Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing).

Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy, second edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2019).

"The IPE of Money Revisited"Review of International Political Economy (2017).

" A Concluding Note," Contexto Internacional (2015).

Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2014).

Robert Gilpin and the Early Development of International Political Economy," in Wolfgang Danspreckgruber (ed.), Robert Gilpin and International Relations: Reflections (Liechstenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, 2012).

"Toward a New Consensus: From Denial to Acceptance"
in Nicola Phillips and Catherine E. Weaver (eds.), International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2010)

"Are IPE Journals Becoming Boring?"
International Studies Quarterly (2010).

"The Multiple Traditions of American IPE"
in Mark Blyth (ed.), Sage Handbook of International Political Economy (2009).

"A Grave Case of Myopia"
International Interactions (2009).

"The Way Forward"
New Political Economy (2009).

International Political Economy: An Intellectual History
(Princeton University Press, 2008).

"The Transatlantic Divide: Why Are American and British IPE So Different?"
Review of International Political Economy (2007).

 


Miscellaneous

"Money, Power, Authority,"
in Randall Germain (ed.) Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2016).

"Crises, Good or Bad,"
University of Kassel working paper (2015)

"The Future of Reserve Currencies"
Finance and Development (2009).

"Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Security: The Great Tradeoff"
International Affairs (2009).

 

Full Publication List

 

Books:

American Foreign Economic Policy: Essays and Comments (New York: Harper and Row, l968). [editor and contributor]

Balance-of-Payments Policy (London and Baltimore: Penguin Books, l969).

[Spanish-language edition: Madrid, Alianza Editorial, l975]

The Future of Sterling as an International Currency (London: Macmillan, l97l).

[American edition: New York, St. Martin's Press, l972]

The Question of Imperialism: The Political Economy of Dominance and Dependence (New York: Basic Books, l973).

[British edition: Macmillan Ltd., l974] 
[Portuguese-language edition: Rio de Janeiro, Zahar Editores, l976]
[Spanish-language edition: Mexico City, Editores Associados, l977]
[Special edition in simplified English: United States International Communications Agency, Current Thought Series, l979; subsequently published in Thai, Korean, and Arabic translations]

Organizing the World's Money: The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations (New York: Basic Books, l977).

[British edition: Macmillan Ltd., l978]
[Spanish-language edition: Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Economica, l98l]

Banks and the Balance of Payments: Private Lending in the International Adjustment Process, in collaboration with Fabio Basagni (Montclaire, New Jersey: Allenheld Osmun for the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, l981).

[British edition: Croom Helm, l98l]
[Italian-language edition: Bologna, Il Mulino, l982]

In Whose Interest? International Banking and American Foreign Policy (New Haven, CT and London, England: Yale University Press for the Council on Foreign Relations, l986).

[Spanish-language edition: Mexico City, Editorial Limusa, 1990]

Crossing Frontiers: Explorations in International Political Economy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991). 

The International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993). [editor and contributor]

International Trade and Finance: New Frontiers for Research, Essays in Honor of Peter B. Kenen (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997). [editor and contributor]

The Geography of Money (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998).

[Korean-language edition: Seoul, ShiYuShi Publishing, 1999]
[Japanese-language edition: Tokyo, Springer Verlag Tokyo, 2000]

[Chinese-language edition: Southwest Financial University Press, 2004]

[Portuguese-language edition: : Sao Paulo, Editora Unesp, 2013]

Issues and Agents in International Political Economy: An INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Reader, edited with Charles Lipson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).

Theory and Structure in International Political Economy: An INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Reader, edited with Charles Lipson(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). 

The Future of Money (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy, 2 volumes (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004). [editor and contributor]

International Political Economy (London: Ashgate, 2005). [editor]

The Future of the Dollar (Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press, 2006).

Global Monetary Governance (London: Routledge, 2008). 

International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).

[Chinese-language edition: Shanghai Renmin Publishing House, 2010]

The Future of Global Currency: The Euro Versus the Dollar (London: Routledge, 2010).

International Political Economy, 4 volumes (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011).

Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia, edited with Eric M.P. Chiu (London: Routledge, 2014).

Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy (London; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014).

Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry (Princeton, NJ: Prtinceton University Press, 2015).

Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy, second edition (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).

Currency Staecraft: Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019).

Lucky Jerry: The Life of a Political Economist (Archway Publications, 2021).

Rethinking International Political Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).

 

 

Monographs:

Adjustment Costs and the Distribution of New Reserves, Princeton Studies in International Finance, No. l8 (Princeton: International Finance Section, l966).

The Reform of Sterling, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 77 (Princeton: International Finance Section, l969).

Commercial Policy, General Learning Press Module in Economics (Morristown, New Jersey: General Learning Press, l974).

The European Monetary System: An Outsider's View, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. l42 (Princeton: International Finance Section, l98l).

Developing-Country Debt: A Middle Way, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 173 (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1989).

The Financial Support Fund of the OECD: A Failed Initiative, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 204 (International Finance Section, 1997).

Life at the Top: International Currencies in the Twenty-First Century, Princeton Essays in International Economics, No. 221 (Princeton, International Economics Section, 2000). 
  
 

Contributions to Conference Proceedings and Prepared Volumes:

"Foreign Economic Aid," "Foreign Exchange," and "International Trade," annual contributions to Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Inc.), l968-l975.

"Foreign Trade," "Free Trade and Protection," "Tariffs," and "Tariffs, United States," in Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Inc., l972).

"Stabilization Policies in a Dependent Economy: Comment," in Emil Claassen and Pascal Salin (eds.), Stabilization Policies in Interdependent Economies (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., l972).

"The United Kingdom as an Exporter of Capital," in Fritz Machlup, Walter S. Salant, and Lorie Tarshis (eds.), International Mobility and Movement of Capital (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, l972).

"On United States 'Imperialism'," in James H. Weaver (ed.), Modern Political Economy: Radical and Orthodox Views on Crucial Issues (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, l973).

"The Historical Setting: Comments," in Lawrence B. Krause and Walter S. Salant (eds.), European Monetary Unification and Its Meaning for the United States (Washington: Brookings Institution, l974).

"The Revolution in Atlantic Economic Relations: A Bargain Comes Unstuck," in W.F. Hanrieder (ed.), The United States and Western Europe: Political, Economic and Strategic Perspectives (Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers, l974).

"International Reserves and Liquidity," in Peter B. Kenen (ed.), International Trade and Finance: Frontiers for Research (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l975).

"Major Issues of World Monetary Reform," in Critical Choices for Americans, Vol. 5, Trade, Inflation and Ethics (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, l976).

"Mixing Oil and Money," in J.C. Hurewitz (ed.), Oil, the Arab-Israel Dispute, and the Industrial World: Horizons of Crisis (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, l976).

"Problems of Organizing the International Monetary Order," in Fabio Basagni (ed.), International Monetary Relations After Jamaica, Atlantic Papers, 4/l986 (Paris: Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, l976).

"Great Britain," in Wilfrid F. Kohl (ed.), Economic Foreign Policies of Industrial States (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, l977).

"The European Monetary System in the Broader Setting of the Community's Economic and Political Development: Comments," in Philip H. Trezise (ed.) The European Monetary System: Its Promise and Prospects (Washington: Brookings Institution, l979).

"United States Monetary Policy and Economic Nationalism," in Otto Hieronymi (ed.), The New Economic Nationalism (London: Macmillan, l980).

Contributor to dialogue recorded in Randall Hinshaw (ed.), Domestic Goals and Financial Interdependence: The Frankfurt Dialogue (New York and Basle: Marcel Dekker, l980).

Contributor to roundtable discussion recorded in Wilfrid L. Kohl and Giorgio Basevi (eds.), West Germany: A European and Global Power (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, l980).

"The EMS, the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System -- An American View," in Giorgio Basevi and Wilfrid L. Kohl (eds.), The Political Economy of the European Monetary System: A Conference Report, Occasional Paper No. 31 (Bologna, Italy: Johns Hopkins University Research Institute, l980).

"Balancing the System in the l980s: Private Banks and the IMF," in Gary Clyde Hufbauer (ed.), The International Framework for Money and Banking in the l980s (Washington: International Law Institute, l981).

"Three Challenges for Better International Monetary Management," in Gregory Flynn (ed.), Economic Interests in the l980s: Convergence or Divergence?, Atlantic Papers, No. 44-45 (Paris: Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, l982). [This paper was published under the same title in Fletcher Forum, Vol. 6, No. 6 (Summer l982), and under the title "L’avenir du système monétaire international" in Politique Étrangère, No. l (March l980).]

"Balance-of-Payments Financing: Evolution of a Regime," in Stephen D. Krasner (ed.), International Regimes (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, l983). [This volume was first published as a special issue of International Organization, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Spring l982).]

"An Explosion in the Kitchen? Economic Relations with Other Advanced Industrial States," in Kenneth Oye, Robert Lieber, and Donald Rothchild (eds.), Eagle Defiant: United States Foreign Policy in the l980s (Boston: Little Brown, l983).

"High Finance, High Politics," in Richard E. Feinberg and Valeriana Kallab (eds.), Uncertain Future: Commercial Banks and Third World Debt (New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Books for the Overseas Development Council, l984).

"Politics, Trade and Money: Comment," in Loukas Tsoukalis (ed.), Europe, America and the World Economy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, l986).

"International Debt and Linkage Strategies: Some Foreign-Policy Implications for the United States," in Miles Kahler (ed.), The Politics of International Debt (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, l986). [This chapter was first published in International Organization, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Autumn l985).]

"An Explosion in the Kitchen? Economic Relations with Other Advanced Industrial States," in Kenneth Oye, Robert Lieber, and Donald Rothchild (eds.), Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in American Foreign Policy(Boston: Little Brown, 1987). [This chapter updates an earlier version published under the same title in Eagle Defiant (1983).]

"Implications of the European Monetary System for Developing Nations," in Sidney Dell (ed.), The International Monetary System and its Reform, Papers prepared for the Group of Twenty-Four, Part I (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987).

"Global Debt: Why is Cooperation So Difficult?," in Paolo Guerrieri and Pier-Carlo Padoan (eds.), The Political Economy of International Cooperation(London: Croom Helm, 1988).

"European Financial Integration and National Banking Interests," in Pier-Carlo Padoan and Paolo Guerrieri (eds.), The Political Economy of European Integration (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989).

"LDC Debt: Toward a Genuinely Cooperative Solution," in Omar Hamouda, Robin Rowley, and Bernard Wolf (eds.), The Future of the International Monetary System: Change, Coordination or Instability? (London: Edward Elgar, 1989).

"LDC Debt: Is Activism Required?," in Graham Bird (ed.), Third World Debt: The Search for a Solution (London: Edward Elgar, 1989).

"The Brady Plan: Good News and Bad," in Mojmir Mrak (ed.), External Debt Problem: Current Issues and Perspectives (Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: Centre for International Cooperation and Development, 1989).

"North American Policy Toward the International Credit Organizations," in Roberto Bouzas and Roberto Russell (eds.), Estados Unidos and la Transition Argentina (Buenos Aires: Legasa, 1990).

"Debt and the International Financial System from the Perspective of the United States," in Eduardo Ferrero Costa (ed.), La Reinsercion del Peru en el Sistema Financiero Internacional (Lima: CEPEI, 1990).

"Towards a Mosaic Economy: Relations with Other Advanced Industrial Nations," in Kenneth A. Oye, Robert J. Lieber, and Donald Rothchild (eds.), Eagle in a New World: American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era(New York: Harper Collins, 1992).

"U.S. Debt Policy in Latin America: The Melody Lingers On," in Robert Bottome et al., In the Shadow of the Debt: Emerging Issues in Latin America(New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1992).

"Currency Areas" and "Sterling Area" in Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance(London: Macmillan; and New York: Stockton, 1992).

"The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Lessons for the Pacific Region," in Richard A. Higgott, Richard Leaver, and John Ravenhill (eds.), Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s: Conflict or Cooperation? (Sydney: Allen and Unwin and Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993).

"Critical Questions on the Future Role of the ECU," in Leonce Bekemans and Loukas Tsoukalis (eds.), Europe and Global Economic Interdependence(Brussels: European Interuniversity Press, 1993).

"Beyond EMU: The Problem of Sustainability," in Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry A. Frieden (eds.), The Political Economy of European Monetary Unification (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994). [This essay was first published as part of a special issue of Economics and Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (July 1993).]

"'Return to Normalcy'? Global Economic Policy at the End of the Century," in Robert J. Lieber (ed.), Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century (New York: Longman, 1996).

"Gulliver o Lilliputiense? Los Estados Unidos en la Economia Mundial de Hoy" ("Gulliver or Lilliputian? The United States in the World Economy Today"), in Roberto Bouzas and Roberto Russell (eds.), Globalizacion y Regionalismo en las Relaciones Internacionales de Estados Unidos(Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinamericano, 1996).

"La Dinámica de las Relaciones Económicas: Viviendo con el Elefante" ("The Dynamics of Economic Relations: Living with the Elephant"), in Felipe A.M. de la Balze and Eduardo A. Roca (eds.), Argentina y EE UU.: Fundamentos de una Nueva Allianza (Buenos Aires: Asociación de Bancos de la República Argentina, 1996).

"Dollar Diplomacy," "International Debt," and "Third World Debt," in Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson (eds.), Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (1997).

"The Political Economy of Currency Regions," in Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner (eds.), The Political Economy of Regionalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

"Optimum Currency Area Theory: Bringing the Market Back In," in Benjamin J. Cohen (ed.), International Trade and Finance: New Frontiers for Research (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

"When Giants Clash: The OECD Financial Support Fund and the IMF," in Vinod D. Aggarwal (ed.), Institutional Designs for a Complex World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).

"The New Geography of Money," in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner (eds.), Nation-States and Money:  The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies (New York and London:  Routledge, 1999).

"Marketing Money: Currency Policy in a Globalized World," in Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart (eds.), Coping with Globalization (New York and London: Routledge, 2000).

"Money in a Globalized World," in Ngaire Woods (ed.), The Political Economy of Globalization (London: Macmillan, 2000).

"Taming the Phoenix? Monetary Governance After the Crisis," in Greg Noble and John Ravenhill (eds.), The Asian Financial Crisis and the Structure of Global Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

"Money and Power in World Politics," in Thomas C. Lawton, James N. Rosenau, and Amy C. Verdun (eds.), Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy(Ashgate, 2000).

"La Política de las Uniones Monetarias: Reflexiones para el Mercosur," in Jorge Carrera and Federico Sturzenegger (eds.), Coordinación de Políticas Macroeconómicas en el Mercosur (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000).

"Beyond EMU: The Problem of Sustainability," in Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden (eds.), The Political Economy of European Monetary Unification, second edition (Westview, 2000).

"Containing Backlash: Foreign Policy in an Age of Globalization," in Robert J. Lieber (ed.), Eagle Rules? Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the 21st Century (2001).

"EMU and the Developing Countries," in Charles Wyplosz (ed.), EMU: The Impact on Europe and the Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2001). 

"International Finance," in Walter Carlsnaes,Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons(eds.), Handbook of International Relations (Sage,2002).

"Bretton Woods system," in R.J. Barry Jones (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy (Routledge,2002) 

" Capital Controls: Why Do Governments Hesitate?,” in Leslie Elliott Armijo (ed.), Debating the Global Financial Architecture (SUNY Press, 2002).

"Monetary Instability: Are National Currencies Becoming Obsolete?," in Stephen McBride et al. (eds.), Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).

"Is a Dollarized Hemisphere in the U.S. Interest?”, in Carl A. Cira and Elisa N. Gallo (eds.), Dollarization and Latin America: Quick Cure or Bad Medicine? (Summit of the Americas Center, 2002).

"Monetary Unions,” Online Encyclopedia of Economic History(http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia), 2003.

"Capital Controls: The Neglected Option,” in Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and X. Zhang (eds.), International Financial Governance Under Stress: Global Structures versus National Imperatives (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

"Monetary Governance in a Globalized World,” in C. Roe Goddard, Patrick Cronin, and Kishore C. Dash (eds.), International Political Economy, 2nd edition (Lynne Rienner, 2003).

"Monetary Union: The Political Dimension,” in Dominick Salvatore, James W. Dean, and Thomas D. Willett (eds.), The Dollarization Debate (Oxford University Press, 2003).

"Monetary Governance in a World of Regional Currencies," in Miles Kahler and David A. Lake (eds.), Governance in a Global Economy (Princeton University Press, 2003).

"America's Interest in Dollarization," in Volbert Alecander, Jacques Melitz, and George M. von Furstenberg (eds.), Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Effects on Trade, Financial Development, and Stability (Oxford University Press, 2004).

"Living with the Euro: Comment," in Loukas Tsoukalis (ed.), Governance and Legitimacy in EMU (Euripean University Institute, 2005).

"Monetary Governance and Capital Mobility in Historical Perspective," in Rainer Grote and Thilo Marauhn (eds.), The Regulation of International Financial Markets: Perspectives for Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

"The Euro and Transatlantic Relations," in Thomas L. Ilgen (ed.), Hard Power, Soft Power and the Future of Transatlantic Relations (Ashgate, 2006).

"The Macrofoundations of Monetary Power," in David M. Andrews (ed.), International Monetary Power (Cornell University Press, 2006).

"Are National Currencies Becoming Obsolete?," in Giuseppe Felloni (ed.), La Casa di San Giorgio: il potere del credito (Brigati, 2006).

"North American Monetary Union: A United States Perspective," in Amy Verdun (ed.), Britain and Canada and Their Large Neighboring Monetary Unions (Nova Science Publishers, 2006).

"Can the Backlash Against Globalization Be Contained?," in Fernando Lopez-Alves and Diane E. Johnson (eds.), Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

"Enlargement and the International Role of the Euro," in Joaquin Roy and Pedro Gomis-Porqueras (eds.), The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy (Ashgate, 2007).

"After the Fall: East Asian Exchange Rates Since the Crisis," in Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill (eds.), Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy (Cornell University Press, 2008).

"The Euro in a Global Context: Challenges and Capacities," in Kenneth Dyson (ed.), The Euro at Ten: Europeanization, Power, and Convergence(Oxford University Press, 2008).

"The Multiple Traditions of American IPE," in Mark Blyth (ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (Routledge Publishers, 2009).

"Toward a Leaderless Currency System," in Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds.), The Future of the Dollar (Cornell University Press, 2009).

"Supremacia del Dollar, Aspiraciones del Euroe: Recete para la Discordia?", in Federico Steinberg (ed.), El Euro al Recate de Europa (Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 2010)

"Toward a New Consensus: From Denial to Acceptance," in Nicola Phillips and Catherine Weaver (eds.), International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2010).

“Um paraíso perdido? O euro pós-crise,” in Marcos Antonio Macedo Cintra and Aline Regina Alves Martins, eds., As Transformações no Sistema Monetário Internacional (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômia Aplicada, Diretoria de Estudos e Relaçõ Econômicas e Politicas Internacionais, 2012).

“Finance and Security in East Asia,” in Avery Goldstein and Edward D. Mansfield (eds.), The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2012).

"Robert Gilpin and the Early Development of International Political Economy," in Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (ed.), Robert Gilpin & International Relations: Reflections (Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, 2012).

"Currency and State Power," in Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein (eds.), Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013).

"The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order," in David Held and Charles Roger (eds.), Global Governance at Risk (Polity Press, 2013).

"Um paraiso perdido? O euro pos-crise" (Paradise Lost? The Euro After the Crisis), in M. Cintra and A. Martins (eds.), As Transformacoes no Sistema Internacional (2013).

"Introduction" (with Eric M.P. Chiu), in Benjamin J. Cohen and Eric M.P. Chiu (eds.), Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia(Routledge, 2014).

"The Yuan's Long March," in Benjamin J. Cohen and Eric M.P. Chiu (eds.), Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia (Routledge, 2014).

"The China Question: Can Its Rise Be Accommodated?," in Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014).

"Will History Repeat Itself? Lessons for the Yuan," in Barry Eichengreen and Masahiro Kawai (eds.), Renminbi Internationalization (Asian Development Bank Institute and Brookings Institution, 2015).

"Power, Money, Authority," in Randall Germain (ed.), Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2016).

 

Articles:

"The Euro-Dollar, the Common Market, and Currency Unification," Journal of Finance, Vol. l8 (December l963).

"Balance of Payments Adjustment in a Disequilibrium System," Kyklos, Vol. l7 (March l964). [Co-authored with Staffan B. Linder.]

"A Note on the Definition of International Liquidity," Economia Internazionale, Vol. l7 (August l964).

"Exchange Rates During the Process of Customs Union," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. l6 (November l964).

"Capital Controls and the U.S. Balance of Payments: Comment," American Economic Review, Vol. 55 (March l965).

"Can We Alter Tastes to Suit our Balance of Payments Problem?," Challenge, March/April l967.

"Voluntary Foreign Investment Curbs: A Plan that Really Works," Challenge, March/April l967.

"Reparations in the Postwar Period: A Survey," Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, No. 82 (September l967).

"The Benefits and Costs of Sterling," Euromoney, September l969.

"Sterling and the City," The Banker, February l970.

"Measuring the Benefits and Costs of Sterling," Euromoney, April l970.

"U.S. Foreign Economic Policy in the l970s," ORBIS, Vol. l5 (Spring l97l).

"The Seigniorage Gain of an International Currency: An Empirical Test," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 85 (August l971).

"What to Do About Sterling," Euromoney, July l971.

"Sterling After the Vote," International Currency Review, November/December l971.

"The Future Role of Sterling," National Westminister Bank Quarterly Review, May l973.

"The Political Economy of Monetary Reform Today," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 30, No. l (Spring/Summer l976).

"Managing Floating Exchange Rates," Intereconomics, January/February l978 [printed in German as "Zur Steuerung floatender Wechselkurse," Wirtschafts Dienst, July l977].

"The U.S. Trade Deficit: A Cause for Alarm?," Fletcher Forum, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May l978).

"Financial Aspects of the North-South Dialogue," Marzhaye Now [New Frontiers, a Farsi-language magazine once published in Iran], Vol. 22, No. 6 (l978).

"Cutting Japan's Trade Surplus," Challenge, July/August l978.

"Europe's Money, America's Problem," Foreign Policy, No. 35 (Summer l979).

"Le SME, le dollar, et l'avenir du système monétaire international" ["EMS, the Dollar, and the Future of the International Monetary System"], Politique Étrangère, No. l (March l980).

"Inflation, the Terms of Trade and Flexible Exchange Rates: Comment," Kredit und Kapital, Heft 6 (l980).

"Monetary Relations Between the U.S. and Japan," Trends [a Japanese-language magazine published in Japan], No. l0 (l980).

"Balance-of-Payments Financing: Evolution of a Regime," International Organization, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Spring l982).

"Trade and Unemployment: Global Bread and Butter Issues," Worldview, Vol. 26, No. l (January l983).

"Banking Gone Bad," Worldview, Vol. 26, No. l0 (October l983).

"International Debt and Linkage Strategies: Some Foreign Policy Implications for the United States," International Organization, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Autumn l985).

"Bankruptcy Treatment for LDC Debt," The International Economy, Vol. 2, No. 6 (November/December 1988).

"Third World Debt: Is There an Unexploited Opportunity for Joint Gain?," Business in the Contemporary World, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1989).

"A Global Chapter 11," Foreign Policy, No. 75 (Summer 1989).

"Debtors in Wonderland," Challenge, November/December 1989.

"The United States and the International Economic Scene," Revista Espanola de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 2 (Autumn 1989).

"The Political Economy of International Trade," International Organization, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring 1990).

"What Ever Happened to the LDC Debt Crisis?," Challenge, May/June 1991.

"Toward a Mosaic Economy: Economic Relations in the Post-Cold War Era," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1991).

"Beyond EMU: The Problem of Sustainability," Economics and Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (July 1993).

"Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance," World Politics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (January 1996).

"EMU and the Dollar: Who Threatens Whom?," Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996).

"L’Euro contre le Dollar: Un Défi pour Qui?," Politique Étrangère, No. 4 (1997).

"Money in a Globalized World: From Monopoly to Oligopoly," Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February 1998).

"Dollarisation:  le Dimension Politique," L'Economie Politique, No. 5 (January 2000).

"Life at the Top: International Currencies in the 21st Century," Latin American Journal of Economics 110 (April 2000).

"Capital Controls: Why Do Governments Hesitate?," Kokusai Kin-yuh / International Finance Journal (September 15 and October 1, 2000 - Japanese translation in two parts).

"Contrôle des Capitaux: Pourquoi les Gouvernements Hesitent-Ils?," Révue Économique, Vol. 52, No. 2 (March 2001).

"Electronic Money: New Day or False Dawn?," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2001). 
  
"Monnaie électronique: un jour nouveau ou une aube trompeuse?." L'économie politique, no.14 (2e trimestre 2002).

"U.S. Policy on Dollarization: A Political Analysis," Geopolitics, Vol. 7, No.1 (Summer 2002). 

"Are Monetary Unions Inevitable?", International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 3 (August 2003). 

"Global Currency Rivalry: Can the Euro Ever Challenge the Dollar?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4 (September 2003).

"Pourquoi l'euro n'est pas pres de remplacer le dollar," L'Economie politique, No. 20 (October 2003).

"Dollarization Rest in Peace," International Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2005).

"North American Monetary Union: A United States Perspective," Current Economics and Politics of Europe, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2006).

"The Euro and Transatlantic Relations" (Russian translation), Ural Survey of International Studies (2006).

"The Transatlantic Divide: Why Are American and British IPE So Different?," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May 2007).

"Enlargement and the International Role of the Euro," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 5 (December 2007).

"The Transatlantic Divide: A Rejoinder," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 15, No. 1 (February 2008).

"The International Monetary System: Diffusion and Ambiguity," International Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 3 (May 2008).

"The Euro as an International Currency: An Interim Report," EUSA Review(Fall 2008).

"A One-and-a-Half Currency System, with Paola Subacchi, Journal of International Affairs , Vol. 62, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2008).

"Striking a Nerve," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 16, No. 1 (February 2009).

"Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Security: The Great Tradeoff," International Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 4 (July 2009).

"The Future of Reserve Currencies," Finance and Development, Vol. 46, No. 3 (September 2009).

"Dollar Dominance, Euro Aspirations: Recipe for Discord?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4 (September 2009).

"The Way Forward," New Political Economy , Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 2009).

"A Grave Case of Myopia," International Interactions, Vol. 35, No. 4 (October).

"Currency and State Power," Revista da Procuradoria-Geral do Banco Central (Law Review of the Central Bank of Brazil), Vol. 3, No. 2 (December 2009).

"Are IPE Journals Becoming Boring?," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (September 2010).

"Security Still Trumps Finance in East Asia," Global Asia, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 2011).

"The Benefits and Costs of an International Currency: Getting the Calculus Right," Open Economies Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (February 2012).

"The Yuan Tomorrow? Evaluating China's Currency Internationalization Strategy", New Political Economy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2012).

"The Future of the Euro: Let's Get Real," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 2012).

"The Future of the Euro: Rejoinder to Schwartz," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 2012).

"What Does the International Currency System Really Look Like?" (with Tabitha Benney), Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 5 (October 2014).

"Why Can't Europe Save Itself? A Note on a Structural Failure," Contemporary Politics, Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2015).

"A Concluding Note," Contexto Internacional, Vol. 37, No. 3 (September/December 2015).

"The Demise of the Dollar? Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est Pareil," Revue de la Regulation, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Autumn 2015).

"The IPE of Money Revisited," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 4 (August 2017).

"Reflections on Liberal and Monetary Orders," International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May 2020).

"Currency Power and International Security," Fletcher Security Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2021).

 

Shorter Commentaries:
 

"Calling in Postwar Debts Won't Help," Boston Globe, October 4, l971.

"The Williamsburg Summit: A Failure of Political Will," Nihon Keizai Shimbun [Japan Economic Journal], June 20, l983.

"Current Account," Worldview [a bi-monthly column published June l983-June l985].

"The Politics of Latin Debt," The New York Times, August 8, l985 [reprinted as "No Choice But to Shift the Burden," International Herald Tribune, August 9, l985].

"Let Them Eat Fantasy," San Jose Mercury News, February 6, l986.

"Third World Debt (Cont'd.)," The New York Times, March 5, 1987 [reprinted as "So Much for All That Progress on Debt," International Herald Tribune, March 6, l987].

"An International Chapter 11," The New York Times, August 11, 1987 [reprinted in International Herald Tribune, August 12, 1987].

"GATT Setback Won't Lead to Trade Wars," Christian Science Monitor, January 10, 1991.

"Adapting to a Mosaic-Like World Economy," Trends [a monthly publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, distributed with The Sunday Times], May 26, 1991.

"Globalnomics: Clinton Missed an Opportunity in Tokyo," Santa Barbara News-Press, July 16, 1993.

"Tax Breaks Are Not the Best Lures," Santa Barbara News-Press, October 31, 1993.

"Gold: Barbarous Relic?," Global Competitor, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 1994).

"Qui gagnera le match euro-dollar?" ("Who Will Win the Euro-Dollar Contest?"), Capital, No. 76 (January 1998).

"The Approaching Monetary Earthquake," Santa Barbara News-Press, May 17, 1998.

"Surprise Argentine," Alternatives Économiques, May 1999.

"World Economy in the Next Century and Beyond," Santa Barbara News-Press, June 20, 1999.

"Ce Que Mundell a dit," Alternatives Économiques, January 2000.

"La monnaie et le pouvoir des Etats," Alternatives Économiques, no. 45, 2000.

"L'euro a la carrure pour defier le roi dollar," Le Soir (Brussels), May 8, 2000.

"Es Irreversible la Globalización?, La Razon (Buenos Aires), August 31, 2000.

"Euro Identité," Alternatives Économiques, no.199,2002.

"Bush est-il protectionniste?” ["Is Bush a Protectionist?”], Alternatives Economiques,, no. 204, 2002.

"Gestion des crises financières: enfin!” ["Management of Financial Crises: At Last!”], Alternatives Economiques, no. 209, 2002.

"Estan obsoletas las monedas nacionales?," ("Are National Currencies Becoming Obsolete?"), Cinco Dias, 7 June 2004

"Do Not Rush to Write Off National Currencies," Financial Times, 19 April 2006.

"Is the Dollar Dead?," 93106 (UCSB Faculty Newsletter), 22 January 2008.

"Reforms That Would Help Euro Punch Its Weight" (with Paola Subacchi), Financial Times, 30 July 2008.

"Forecasting the Euro's Future", www.voxeu.org, 13 September 2008.

"International Economic Crisis and a New Bretton Woods: No Quick Fix," The World Today, December 2008.

"Foreword," in Analyzing the Global Political Economy, by Andrew Walter and Gautam Sen (Princeton University Press, 2008).

"La suprematie du dollar toujours incontestee" ("The Supremacy of the Dollar Still Uncontested"), Alternatives Economiques, April 2009.

"The Endurance of Dollar Supremacy," Salzburg Journal (Salzburg Global Seminar Newsletter), June 2009.

"Foreword," in Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System, ed. Paola Subacchi and John Driffil (Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2010).

"Les marches financiers font-ils de la politique?" ("Are the Financial Markets Political?"), Alternatives Economiques, 2011.

"International Political Economy: A Pluralistic Field of Study," Elgarblog(elgarblog.wordpress.com), 2014.

"King Dollar is Back - For Now, The Conversation (theconversation.com), 2014.

"Foreword," in The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers, ed. Leslie Armijo and Saori Katada (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

"Vladimir Putin and Russia's Incredible Shrinking Ruble," The Conversation(theconversation.com), 2014.

"There is Much More to Academic Life," Edgarblogedgarblog.wordpress.com), 2015.

"Did Swiss Bank's Franc Surprise Signal Start of a Currency War?," The Conversation (theconversation.com), 2015.

"The Value of China's Devaluation," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate,org), 2015.

"Crashing the SDR," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2015.

"Trumping the Dollar," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2016.

"The Case for Muddling through Brexit," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2016.

"Will the Dollar be Trumped?," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2016.

"Should China Be Ejected from the SDR?," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2017.

"Is Trump Killing the Dollar?," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2017.

"How Stable is the Global Financial System?", Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2017

"Tax Bill's Attack on Higher Education Undermines America's Economic Vitality," The Conversation (theconversation.com), 2017.

"Treasury Sercretary Mnuchin's Weak-Dollar Myopia is Dangerous," The Conversation (theonversation.com), 2018.

"Will Trump Launch a Currency War, too?," Project Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2018.

"Venezuela's 'Desperate' Currency Devaluation Won't Save Its Economy from Collapse," The Conversation (the conversation.com), 2018.

"Trump's Strong-Dollar Weakness," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2018.

"Where Have All the Safe Havens Gone?," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2019.

"The Case for a Fiscal Fed," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2019.

"Can America and China Avoid a Currency War?," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2019.

"The Pandemic is Shaking the Dollar's Supremacy," Project-Syndicate (project-syndicate.org), 2020.

 

Contributions to Congressional Hearings:

"A Survey of Capital Movements and Findings Regarding their Interest Sensitivity," The United States Balance of Payments, Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress, Part I (Washington: July l963).

"Statement," The United States Balance of Payments in l968, A Compendium of Statements by Bankers, Economists, and Others to the Joint Economic Committee on the Brookings Institution Report (Washington: August l963).

"Statement," Linking Reserve Creation and Development Assistance, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Exchange and Payments of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress (Washington: May l969).

"The Military Contribution to U.S. Payments Deficits," The Balance-of-Payments Mess, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Exchange and Payments of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress (Washington: June l97l).

"Statement," The Role of the Export-Import Bank and Export Controls in U.S. International Economic Policy, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Finance of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (Washington: April l974).

"Statement," Foreign Investment Legislation, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism of the Senate Committee on Commerce (Washington: May l975); subsequently reprinted in The Operations of Federal Agencies in Monitoring, Reporting on, and Analyzing Foreign Investments in the United States, Hearings before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, Part 3 (Washington: July l979).

"Statement," The Trade Deficit: How Much of a Problem? What Remedy?, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Economics of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress (Washington: October l977).

"Statement," International Financial Conditions, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Finance of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (Washington: December l979).

"Statement," To Increase the U.S. Quota in the International Monetary Fund and Related Matters, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (Washington: April l983). 
  
 

Book Reviews:

Herbert G. Grubel, Forward Exchange, Speculation, and the International Flow of Capital (Stanford: Stanford University Press, l966) in Journal of Finance, Vol. 22 (l967).

M.O. Clement et al., Theoretical Issues in International Economics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., l967) in American Economic Review, Vol. 57 (l967).

J.H. Adler (ed.), Capital Movements and Economic Development, Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economics Association (New York: St. Martin's Press, l967) in Journal of Finance, Vol. 23 (l969).

Michael Michaely, Balance-of-Payments Adjustment Policies: Japan, Germany and the Netherlands (New York: Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, l968) in Economica, Vol. 36 (l969).

W.B. Reddaway et al., Effects of U.K. Direct Investment Overseas: Final Report (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l968) in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 7 (l969).

Fred G. Hirsch, Money International, revised edition (London: Penguin Books Ltd., l969) in Economica, Vol. 37 (l970).

J. Marcus Fleming, Essays in International Economics (London: George Allen and Unwin, l97l) in Economica, Vol. 39 (l972).

Frederick J. Dobney (ed.), Selected Papers of Will Clayton (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins Press, l971) in ORBIS, Vol. l6 (l972).

Grahame Walshe, International Monetary Reform (London: Macmillan, l971) in Economica, Vol. 39 (l972).

Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, l972) in Journal of Finance, Vol. 28 (l973).

F.V. Meyer, The Functions of Sterling (London: Croom Helm, l973) in Economica, Vol. 4l (l974).

Giovanni Magnifico, European Monetary Unification (London: Macmillan, l973) in Economica, Vol. 41 (l974).

Gerald M. Meier (ed.), International Economic Reform: Collected Papers of Emile Despres (Oxford: Oxford University Press, l973) in Economica, Vol. 41 (l974).

H. Robert Heller, International Monetary Economics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, l974) in Economica, Vol. 42 (l975).

Michael Barratt Brown, The Economics of Imperialism (London: Penguin Books, l974) and Steven J. Rosen and James R. Kurth (eds.), Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, l974) in Economica, Vol. 42 (l975).

C. Fred Bergsten (ed.), The Future of the International Economic Order: An Agenda for Research (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, l973) in American Political Science Review, Vol. 70 (l976).

David P. Calleo (ed.), Money and the Coming World Order (New York: New York University Press, l976) in Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 85 (l977).

Robert Z. Aliber (ed.), The Political Economy of Monetary Reform (London: Macmillan, l977) in Economica, Vol. 45 (l978).

Xenophon Zolotas, International Monetary Issues and Development Policies(Athens: Bank of Greece, l977) in Journal of International Economics, Vol. 8 (l978).

Fred L. Block, The Origins of International Economic Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, l977) and Stephen D. Cohen, The Making of United States International Economic Policy (New York: Praeger, l977) in Economica, Vol. 45 (l978).

William R. Cline, Noboru Kawanabe, T.O.M. Kronsjo, and Thomas Williams, Trade Negotiations in the Tokyo Round: A Quantitative Assessment(Washington: Brookings, l977) in Journal of Politics, Vol. 41 (l979).

Jude Wanniski, The Way the World Works: How Economies Fail -- and Succeed (New York: Basic Books, l978) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. l0 (l979).

J.A.H. deBeaufort Wijnholds, The Need for International Reserves and Credit Facilities (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, l977) in Journal of International Economics, Vol. 9 (l979).

Graham Bird, The International Monetary System and the Less Developed Countries (London: Macmillan, l978) in Economica, Vol. 47 (l980).

Richard J. Barnet, The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity (New York: Simon and Schuster, l980) in Journal of Politics, Vol. 43 (l981).

Charles P. Kindleberger, International Money: A Collection of Essays(London: George Allen & Unwin, l981) in Economica, Vol. 49 (l982).

Anthony Sampson, The Money Lenders: Bankers and a World in Turmoil(New York: Viking, l981) in Worldview, April l982.

Richard E. Feinberg, Subsidizing Success: The Export-Import Bank in the U.S. Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l982) and Jordan Jay Hillman, The Export-Import Bank at Work: Promotional Financing in the Public Sector (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, l982) in Journal of International Economics, Vol. l5 (l983).

Marko Milivojevic, The Debt Rescheduling Process (London: Frances Pinter, 1985) in Economica, Vol. 54 (1987).

Philip A. Wellons, Passing the Buck: Banks, Governments, and Third World Debt (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987) in Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 18 (1987).

Irving S. Friedman, Toward World Prosperity: Reshaping the Global Monetary System (Lexington, MA: Heath, 1987) in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 26 (1988).

Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987) in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 12 (1988).

Karin Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers, and the Establishment: A Revisionist Account of the International Debt Crisis (New York: Basic Books, 1991) in Policy Currents, Vol. 2 (1992).

Paul Volcker and Toyoo Gyohten, Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Decline of American Supremacy (New York: Times Books, 1992) in The New York Times (Sunday Book Review Section), June 7, 1992.

John B. Goodman, Monetary Sovereignty: The Politics of Central Banking in Western Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992) in International Economic Insights, March/April, 1993.

Joel Kurtzman, The Death of Money: How the Electronic Economy has Destabilized the World's Markets and Created Financial Chaos (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993) in The New York Times (Sunday Book Review Section), April 4, 1993.

Karin Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers, and the Establishment: A Revisionist Account of the International Debt Crisis (New York: Basic Books, 1991) in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 31 (1993).

Jeffrey A. Hart, Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992) in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 108 (1993).

Beth V. Yarbrough and Robert M. Yarbrough, Cooperation and Governance in International Trade: The Strategic Organizational Approach (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 32 (1994).

Edward D. Mansfield, Power, Trade, and War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 33 (1995).

Jonathan Kirshner, Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 111 (1996).

Peter Dombrowski, Policy Responses to the Globalization of American Banking (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1996) in American Political Science Review, Vol. 91 (1997).

Susan Strange, Mad Money (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 38 (2000).

Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. (eds.), Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998), in Journal of Politics, Vol. 62 (2000).

Luca Einaudi, Money and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), in EH.NET Book Reviews (http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0733.shtml).

Eric Helleiner, The Making of National Money (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 34 (2004).

Jonathan Kirshner (ed.), Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitos Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2 (2004).

Jeffry Frieden, Currency Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 53 (2015).

Eric Helleiner, Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 130 (2015).

Daniel Drezner, The System Worked (New York: Oxford University Press), in Perspectives on Politics, Vol 13 (2015).

Jonathan Kirshner, American Power after the Financial Crisis, in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 130 (2015).
 

Published Working Papers:

The Geography of Money: Currency Relations Among Sovereign States, OFCE Working Paper No. 94-07 (Paris: Observatoire Français des Conjunctures Économiques, 1994).

When Giants Clash: The OECD Financial Support Fund and the IMF, Working Paper 2.34 (Berkeley: Center for German and European Studies, 1996).

Technology, Globalization, and the Future of Money, European Union Center of the University System of Georgia, Working Paper T99-1 (available online at: www.inta.gatech.edu/eucenter/home.html).

The Geography of Money, European Union Center of California, Research Brief No. 1 (June).

Political Dimensions of Dollarization, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (available online at http://www.dallasfed.org/htm/dallas/pdfs/cohen/pdf).

EMU and the Developing Countries, WIDER Working Paper 177, World Institute for Economic Development Research, Helsinki (available online at http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/publications.htm).

Dollarization: Pros and Cons, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich (available online at http://www.cap.uni-muenchen.de/transatlantic/papers/americas.html). 
 

The Geopolitics of Currencies and the Future of the International System, Real Instituto Elcanto, Madrid (available online at http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/documentos/69.asp).

The Macrofoundation of Monetary Power, EUI Working Papers, RSCAS No. 2005/08 (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy).

Is the Euro Ready for 'Prime Time'?, Chatham House Briefing Paper (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, July 2008).

Global Turmoil: The International Monetary System Today, Paper No. 1, The BRICS and Asia, Currency Internationalization and International Monetary Reform (Asian Development Bank, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, June 2013).

"Will History Repeat Itself? Lessons for the Yuan," No. 453, Asian Development Bank Institute (January 2014)

"Crises, Good or Bad," University of Kassel, Germany (June 2015).

"Renminbi Internationalization: A Conflict of Statecrafts," Royal Institute of International Affairs, London (March 2017).

 

Publications Reprinted in Readers or Anthologies:

"Toward a General Theory of Imperialism" (from The Question of Imperialism, 1973, ch. 7), in David Mermelstein (ed.), Economics: Mainstream Readings and Radical Critiques, third edition (New York: Random House, 1976).

"A Brief History of International Monetary Relations" (from Organizing the World's Money, 1977, ch. 3), in Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, first, second, and third editions (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987, 1991, 1994).

"The Political Economy of International Trade (from International Organization, Spring 1990), in Kendall W. Stiles and Tsuneo Akaha (eds.), International Political Economy: A Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).

"Balance-of-Payments Financing: Evolution of a Regime" (from International Organization, Spring 1982), in Benjamin J. Cohen (ed.), The International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).

"International Debt and Linkage Strategies: Some Foreign Policy Implications for the United States" (from International Organization, Autumn 1985), in Benjamin J. Cohen (ed.), The International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).

Developing-Country Debt: A Middle Way (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1989), in Benjamin J. Cohen (ed.), The International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).

"Toward a Mosaic Economy: Economic Relations in the Post-Cold War Era" (from The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 1991), in Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, third edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994); and Steven L. Spiegel and David J. Pervin (eds.), At Issue: Politics in the World Arena, seventh edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).

"The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Problems of Cooperation in International Monetary Relations" (from Higgot, Leaver, and Ravenhill, eds., Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s, 1993), in Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, third edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).

"The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Problems of Cooperation in International Monetary Relations" (from Higgot, Leaver, and Ravenhill, eds., Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s, 1993), in Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, fourth edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

“Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance (from World Politics, January 1996), in Benjamin J. Cohen, ed., International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy (London: Edward Elgar, 2004).

“The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Lessons for the Pacific Region" (from Higgot, Leaver, and Ravenhill, eds., Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s, 1993), in Benjamin J. Cohen, ed., International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy (London: Edward Elgar, 2004).

“Beyond EMU: The Problem of Sustainability” (from Eichengreen and Frieden, eds., The Political Economy of European Monetary Unification, 2001), in Benjamin J. Cohen, ed., International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy (London: Edward Elgar, 2004).

“The New Geography of Money” (from Gilbert and Helleiner, eds., Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies, 1999) in Benjamin J. Cohen, ed., International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy (London: Edward Elgar, 2004).

“Dollarization: Pros and Cons” (from Working Paper, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich), in N.V. Chowdary, ed., Dollarization – Concepts and Cases (Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press, 2004).

"Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance (from World Politics, January 1966), in John J. Kirton, ed., International Finance (Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009).

"A One-and-a-Half Currency System" (with Paola Subacchi, from Journal of International Affairs, 2008) in Thomas Oatley, ed., Debates in International Political Economy (Boston: Longman, 2010).

"The Transatlantic Divide: Why are American and British IPE So Different?" (from Review of International Political Economy, May 2007), in B.J. Cohen, ed., International Political Economy, Volume 1 (London: Edward Elgar, 2011).

"The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Lessons for the Pacific Region" (from Higgot, Leaver, and Ravenhill, eds., Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s, 1993), in B. J. Cohen, ed., International Political Economy, Volume 3 (London: Edward Elgar, 2011).

"The New Geography of Money" (from Gilbert and Helleiner, eds., Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies, 1999) in B. J. Cohen, ed., International Political Economy, Volume 3 (London: Edward Elgar, 2011).

"The International Monetary System: Diffusion and Ambiguity" (from International Affairs, May 2008), in E. Fels, J-F Kremer and K. Kronenberg, eds., Power in the 21st Century (Berlin: Springer, 2012).

"The Macrofoundations of Monetary Power" (from David Andrews, ed., International Monetary Power, 2006) in D.E. Paul and A Amawi, eds., The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy (2013).

"The Euro-Dollar, the Common Market, and Currency Unification" (from Journal of Finance, December 1963), in Mark P. Taylor and Meher Manzur, eds., Recent Developments in Exchange-Rate Economics (London: Edward Elgar, 2013).

"Renminbi Internationalization: A Conflict of Statecrafts" (from Chatham House Research Paper, 2017), in China Policy Review (2017, Chinese translation).

"What Does the International Currency System Really Look Like?", with Tabitha Benney (from Review of International Political Economy, 2014), in B. Tonra, R. Whitman and A. Young, eds., Foreign Policy of the European Union (2017). 

"The Yuan Tomorrow? Evaluating China's Currency Internationalization Strategy" (from New Political Economy, 2012), in Shahid Yusuf, ed., China and the Global Economy (2017).

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