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.