Dollar Dominance: Rise and Potential Fall of USD: Bretton Woods, Petrodollars, and the Future of Global Reserve Currency

When delegates from forty-four nations gathered at Bretton Woods in 1944, they built a monetary order around a single currency—the United States dollar. It was a decision shaped by wartime necessity and American economic supremacy, and it created a global financial architecture that has endured, adapted, and been repeatedly contested for eight decades. Dollar Dominance traces the full historical arc of that system: how it was constructed, how it survived the collapse of the gold standard in...