Structural power and the dollar reserve system
Journal: Athena; rassegna mensile di biologia, clinica e terapia
Year: 2014

International Relations (IR) as a discipline of study has traditionally been acutely focused on the interaction between states and the consequences of these interactions.1 War, alliance making and the balance of power in the international system have long been considered a primary concern of many IR scholars. Since the end of World War II (WW2) however, the undeniable onset of globalisation has forced the discipline and all its various schools of thought to reassess the nature of the internation