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Money is no longer just a measure of value-it is the frontline of global power. From frozen reserves to blocked payment networks, nations today fight wars through banks and balance sheets rather than battlefields. This book exposes how currency wars are reshaping the twenty-first century, showing why the struggle over the world's money matters to governments, corporations, and individuals alike. Readers are taken inside the hidden architecture of dollar dominance, from the Bretton Woods legacy to the petrodollar pact, and shown why every attempt at dedollarisation faces resistance. The narrative uncovers how financial sanctions cripple economies, why Europe's euro remains constrained, and how China's digital yuan is quietly building new rails of influence. Along the way, it explores the rise of central bank digital currencies, the fragile experiments of cryptocurrencies, and the political drama inside institutions like the IMF and World Bank. This book is for business leaders, policymakers, and curious citizens who want to understand how finance has become a weapon-and what that means for their own future. By the end, readers will gain a mental map for interpreting headlines, decoding crises, and anticipating shifts in global monetary power. - Learn why the dollar still dominates and what signals reveal real change - Understand how sanctions, debt, and digital money shape geopolitics - Discover how institutions like the IMF turn lending into politics Urgent, precise, and deeply researched, it offers clarity in a world where money is no longer neutral but a battlefield-and where knowing the rules can mean the difference between security and vulnerability.

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Omar Al-Masri writes with the conviction that money is not only an economic tool but a force that shapes empires, wars, and the fate of ordinary people. Growing up at the crossroads of East and West, he witnessed how sanctions, exchange rates, and remittances can alter lives more sharply than politics or armies. His work draws on history, law, and philosophy to reveal the hidden machinery of financial power-what it enables, and what it destroys. Al-Masri's writing combines the clarity of a strategist with the empathy of someone who has seen families wait for wire transfers that never arrive. His mission is to equip readers with the lens of ""currency statecraft,"" so they can understand the quiet wars that determine prosperity, stability, and sovereignty in the twenty-first century.

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