1. Introduction -- 2. American foreign financial and economic policy prior to the end of Bretton Woods: Capital account policies, foreign trade and development assistance policies -- 3. Oil, private capital markets, inflation: the crumbling of the post war international payments system before the end of Bretton Woods -- 4. The rise of OPEC Energy finance and the quest for capital supply in the US foreign economic policy 1973-1976 -- 5. From the collapse of policies on the capital account through the Carter Administration demand side policies: the short circuit between balance of payments deficit financing measures and petrodollar recycling -- 6. capital markets developments, non oil LDC imbalances, inflation, and the stabilization of US international payments position from the 1960s through the 1970s: continuities and change in the American foreign financial policy .