Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and the editor of International Finance. Robert E. Litan is vice president of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

"'A highly readable account of an important, if potentially dry, subject: how international capital flows have been and are still used as instruments of foreign policy... What makes Financial Statecraft particularly useful for non-economists and policymakers, as well as Wall Street executives and historians alike, is the authors' willingness to be prescriptive about finance in public policy... This is a useful, accessible book for lay readers seeking an understanding of the important role that capital flows play in the making of foreign policy.' Economist"

Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and the editor of International Finance. Robert E. Litan is vice president of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

"'A highly readable account of an important, if potentially dry, subject: how international capital flows have been and are still used as instruments of foreign policy... What makes Financial Statecraft particularly useful for non-economists and policymakers, as well as Wall Street executives and historians alike, is the authors' willingness to be prescriptive about finance in public policy... This is a useful, accessible book for lay readers seeking an understanding of the important role that capital flows play in the making of foreign policy.' Economist"

Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and the editor of International Finance. Robert E. Litan is vice president of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

"'A highly readable account of an important, if potentially dry, subject: how international capital flows have been and are still used as instruments of foreign policy... What makes Financial Statecraft particularly useful for non-economists and policymakers, as well as Wall Street executives and historians alike, is the authors' willingness to be prescriptive about finance in public policy... This is a useful, accessible book for lay readers seeking an understanding of the important role that capital flows play in the making of foreign policy.' Economist"