How have US economic defense policies promoted its security since 1933?

United States Economic Statecraft for Survival, 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 policymakers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the US. This study situates economic defense policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex strategic and political developments of the Cold War.