Achilles’ deal: Dollar decline and US grand strategy after the crisis

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1071-1094

  Stokes, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dollar hegemony; financial crisis; grand strategy; hegemony; strategy; Unipolarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907459921     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2013.779592     Document Type: Article

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