Global perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the post-War World order

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This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South dialogue on global financial governance. It moves beyond the usual focus on Anglo-American interests by highlighting the influence of delegations from Latin America, India, the Soviet Union, France, and others. It also investigates how state and private interests intermingled, collided, and compromised during the negotiations on the way to a set of regulations and institutions that still partly frame global economic governance in the early twenty-first century. Together, these essays lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive analysis of Bretton Woods as a pivotal site of multilateralism in international history. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Bretton Woods: A Global Perspective (Giles Scott-Smith, J. Simon Rofe)....Pages 1-13 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 What’s Been Missing from Conventional Histories of Bretton Woods? (Eric Helleiner)....Pages 17-34 “Prelude to the Future”: The Antecedents of the Bretton Woods Architecture (J. Simon Rofe)....Pages 35-50 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 The Benelux’s Monetary Diplomacy and the Bretton Woods Conference (Thierry Grosbois)....Pages 53-71 French Monetary Policy and the Bretton Woods System: Criticisms, Proposals and Conflicts (Eric Monnet)....Pages 73-87 The Soviet Union and the Bretton Woods Conference (Vladimir O. Pechatnov)....Pages 89-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 “Asia” at Bretton Woods: India, China, and Australasia in Comparative Perspective (Michael Franczak)....Pages 111-127 Assessing the “Multilateral” Nature of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference: An Analysis of Indian Participation (Archna Negi)....Pages 129-148 Voice and Vote for the Weaker Nations: Mexico’s Bretton Woods (Christy Thornton)....Pages 149-165 Canada and Bretton Woods (Kathleen Britt Rasmussen)....Pages 167-186 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Beyen at Bretton Woods: “Much More Significant Under the Surface…” (Ben Wubs)....Pages 189-206 Dean Acheson, Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy (Michael F. Hopkins)....Pages 207-224 “New Lanes in Uncharted Seas”: The Federal Reserve and Bretton Woods (Timothy W. Wintour)....Pages 225-242 Front Matter ....Pages 243-243 The Man Who Wasn’t There: Cordell Hull, Bretton Woods, and the Creation of the GATT (David B. Woolner)....Pages 245-261 Where Was Trade at Bretton Woods? (Francine McKenzie)....Pages 263-280 Bretton Woods, the International Trade Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization (Ruth Jachertz)....Pages 281-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-305