How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed

1. Economic Statecraft 2. The Practice: Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy 3. Transforming Policy: From Peace to War 1933-42 4. The Demise of Neutrality and the Development of Economic Instruments of Coercion 5. The Truman Administration and the Development of Strategic Embargo Policy 6. Eisenhower: Problems with Colleagues and Problems with Allies 7. Thinking about Change: the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations 8. Economics Becomes High Politics: Constructing the Base and Building Up Détente , 1969-1974 9. Ford and Carter: the Decline of Détente and the Approach of the Second Cold War 1974-79 10. Through the Second Cold War to Liberation 11. Economic Statecraft: the Theory 12. Some Concluding Thoughts