Treasurys War, Juan Zarate
Treasurys War, Juan Zarate
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Treasury's War
The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare

Author: Juan Zarate

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 16 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020

Synopsis

For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world. In this gripping story, he explains in unprecedented detail how a small, dedicated group of officials redefined the Treasury's role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply financial pressure against America's enemies.

This group unleashed a new brand of financial power—one that leveraged the private sector and banks directly to isolate rogues from the international financial system. By harnessing the forces of globalization and the centrality of the American market and dollar, Treasury developed a new way of undermining America's foes. Treasury and its tools soon became, and remain, critical in the most vital geopolitical challenges facing the United States, including terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and the regimes in Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

This is the unique story of the United States' financial war campaigns and the contours and uses of financial power, and of the warfare to come.

About Juan Zarate

Juan C. Zarate is the global comanaging partner and chief strategy officer of K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network.

He also is the chairman and cofounder of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a senior fellow at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. He was a visiting lecturer in law at the Harvard Law School for eight years and is a published author, including his books Treasury's War and Forging Democracy.

Mr. Zarate sits on the boards of various organizations, including Northwestern Mutual, Boston Dynamics, Cambridge Quantum Computing, and the Director's Advisory Board for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Mr. Zarate has served for several years as an independent advisor to Coinbase. For over five years, Mr. Zarate sat on the board of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority, and for seven years, was the US advisor on HSBC's Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.

Mr. Zarate served as the deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism from 2005 to 2009, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the US counterterrorism strategy and policies related to transnational security threats. He was the first-ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, where he led the innovative use of the Treasury's national security-related powers and the establishment of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).

Mr. Zarate is a former federal terrorism prosecutor prior to 9/11, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He and his family live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jared

“This was a twenty-first-century precision-guided munition.” - then CIA director Michael Hayden WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? - The book explains how a small, dedicated group of officials in the Treasury Department refined Treasury’s role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply f......more

Goodreads review by Somit

Treasury’s War- The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare by Juan C. Zarate. He is an American attorney and security advisor who served as the deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism during the George W. Bush administration. He is the chairman and co-founder of the Financial......more

Goodreads review by Greg

An interesting behind-the-scenes look at the work that the Treasury Department did to impose meaningful sanctions against terrorist groups and rogue nations (mostly North Korea and Iran). You'll probably like it more if you're really into financial systems and such - I lost some interest as I went t......more

Goodreads review by M Umer

This book begins just after 9/11, with author lands in Kabul along with other team members of U.S. Treasury Department in November 2022. Events unfold chronologically at the start but later author adopts the approach of subject-wise discussion in an arrangement so the reader understands the gravity......more

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