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McDowell Contributes Chapter to Gates Forum Report on Economic Statecraft

Daniel McDowell

“The Sources of American Financial Power and its Challengers,” written by Daniel McDowell, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs, was presented at the third annual forum, hosted by the Gates Global Policy Center in partnership with William & Mary’s Global Research Institute.

December 18, 2024

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Supports Catherine Herrold’s Study of Locally Led Development

The associate professor will spend three months in Serbia as she continues her research on civil society and grassroots development initiatives.

December 13, 2024

McDowell Discusses Trump’s Plans to Maintain Dollar Dominance in BBC, Bloomberg, Wash Post Articles

“The idea that you’d use political coercion to bind countries, or bind market actors within countries, to use the currency is not how the dollar ascended to this place in the first place,” says Daniel McDowell, professor of political science. “If that’s what’s needed to maintain dollar dominance, that shows there’s a real fundamental problem with the economic appeal.”

December 11, 2024

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