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The Future of the U.S. Dollar in a Post Iran Deal World
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The European Union's announcement in September 2018 that it would begin to create a special payments channel with Iran in response to the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) once again raises the question of the role of the U.S. Dollar (USD) in the international economic order. Under the surface of discussions of alternative payment mechanisms is the legitimate question of the negative impacts of American coercive economic statecraft on the USD status as the leading global reserve currency.
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Bridging the Gulf in the GCC
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Belfer Center Visiting Fellow Michael Greenwald, senior advisor to Atlantic Council President and Chief Executive Officer Fred Kempe, was interviewed by Rachel Brandenburg, director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security's Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, about the implications of the ongoing feud for the Gulf states and US interests. Greenwald is a former US Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait.
Greenwald Speaks at Atlantic Council on Economic Sanctions
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Belfer Center Visiting Fellow Michael B. Greenwald (Pardee '07), a Lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of a March 9, 2018 discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council on the use of economic sanctions as a policy tool.