De-Dollarization examines the global effort to reduce dependence on the United States dollar and the financial architecture built around it. Mick Southerland traces the dollar’s rise through Bretton Woods, the petrodollar system, the IMF, the World Bank, Treasury markets, and international payment networks, then follows the pressures now challenging that order. The book explores sanctions, SWIFT, BRICS coordination, China’s currency strategy, Russia’s response, gold accumulation, regional trade settlement, digital currencies, crypto experiments, energy markets, and shifting policies across Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Readers gain a practical map of the institutions, incentives, and geopolitical risks behind currency realignment. Rather than treating de-dollarization as a single event, the book presents it as a gradual contest among reserve assets, parallel systems, national interests, and financial power—with consequences for debt, trade, inflation, investment, and America’s long-standing monetary privilege.
De-Dollarization examines the global effort to reduce dependence on the United States dollar and the financial architecture built around it. Mick Southerland traces the dollar’s rise through Bretton Woods, the petrodollar system, the IMF, the World Bank, Treasury markets, and international paymen...