Petrodollar Collapse: What Happens When Oil Drops the Dollar Energy, Currency Power, and the Unraveling of a Fifty-Year Arrangement
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Ja
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Ja
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
14.03.2026
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EpubliSeitenzahl
226 (Printausgabe)
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1761 KB
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2. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783565322688
In 1974, the United States and Saudi Arabia struck an arrangement that would quietly govern the global economy for half a century: oil would be priced and sold in dollars, and in exchange, Washington would guarantee Gulf security. The petrodollar system was never formalized in a treaty, never voted on by any legislature, and never explained to the billions of people whose lives it shaped. It simply became the architecture beneath everything.
This book examines what happens when that architecture begins to crack. It traces the original petrodollar bargain through its Cold War logic, its post-1991 expansion, and the growing strains introduced by US shale independence, Gulf diversification strategies, and China's emergence as the world's largest oil importer. It follows Saudi Arabia's quiet negotiations with Beijing over yuan-denominated oil contracts, the acceleration of Gulf sovereign wealth fund diversification, and the technical groundwork being laid for commodity settlement systems that bypass dollar intermediation entirely.
Drawing on energy economics, diplomatic history, and monetary policy analysis, this is a measured and rigorous account of a transition already underway - and what a post-petrodollar world would mean for American power, global inflation, and the countries whose dollar reserves could become tomorrow's stranded assets.
This book examines what happens when that architecture begins to crack. It traces the original petrodollar bargain through its Cold War logic, its post-1991 expansion, and the growing strains introduced by US shale independence, Gulf diversification strategies, and China's emergence as the world's largest oil importer. It follows Saudi Arabia's quiet negotiations with Beijing over yuan-denominated oil contracts, the acceleration of Gulf sovereign wealth fund diversification, and the technical groundwork being laid for commodity settlement systems that bypass dollar intermediation entirely.
Drawing on energy economics, diplomatic history, and monetary policy analysis, this is a measured and rigorous account of a transition already underway - and what a post-petrodollar world would mean for American power, global inflation, and the countries whose dollar reserves could become tomorrow's stranded assets.
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