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Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare

byJuan Carlos Zarate

Juan Carlos Zarate recounts how the U.S. Treasury turned access to dollars, banks, and global financial networks into instruments of national power. After September 11, officials targeted terrorist financing, rogue regimes, proliferators, and criminal organizations by tracing transactions and isolating institutions from the financial system. Zarate, a central architect of this strategy, explains its development, operations, and diplomatic consequences. The book shows how sanctions and financial intelligence can impose enormous pressure without conventional force, while raising questions about overuse, evasion, allied trust, and the long-term durability of American monetary influence.

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Publication date

2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

488

ISBN

9781610394642