Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- The author -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Dollarization and its discontents -- 1. Introduction: Why does dollarization matter and what is at stake? -- 2. The obscurities of dollarization -- PART II: The genesis of dollarization -- 3. Dollarization within the agenda of dollar diplomacy and transition -- 4. The Georgian state as a vessel of dollarization -- 5. Hyperinflation: The origins of dollarization and the birth of the lari
6. A new financial system meets dollarization -- PART III: The persistence of dollarization -- 7. The birth of the new Georgian state -- 8. Peripheral financialization and the persistence of dollarization -- PART IV: The politicization of dollarization -- 9. The politicization of dollarization: the currency crisis unfolding -- 10. Conclusion -- 11. Annex 1 -- Index