The politics of reactive currency statecraft -- The rise of the "people's currency" -- The United Kingdom: a passionate advocate -- Japan: a diplomatic user of the renminbi -- South Korea: a late but active accommodator -- The United States: a confident hegemon.

This study analyses how a state's reactive currency statecraft—its strategic reaction to an international currency issued by a foreign state—is shaped, by devoting special attention to its broad foreign policy stance toward the state issuing that international currency, with a main empirical...

Despite the exploding interest in cryptocurrencies in the markets in recent years, the political economy study of them, in particular as money, remains underdeveloped. This seems quite surprising, given the otherwise extensive research on money and finance in the international political economy...