Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order

Giles Scott-Smith holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WW II at Leiden University, and academic director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the co-editor of the series Key Studies in Diplomacy with Manchester University Press.J. Simon Rofe is Senior Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. He is the co-editor of the series Key Studies in Diplomacy with Manchester University Press and the author of numerous books and articles.

1. Introduction.- I. Bretton Woods: A Global Perspective.- 2. What's Been Missing from Conventional Histories of Bretton Woods?.- 3. Prelude to the Future: The Antecedents of the Bretton Woods Architecture.- II. Multinational Perspectives: Europe.- 4. The Benelux's Monetary Diplomacy and the Bretton Woods Conference.- 5. French Monetary Policy and the Bretton Woods System: Criticisms, Proposals and Conflicts.- 6. The Soviet Union and the Bretton Woods Conference.- III. Multinational Perspectives: Asia and the Americas.- 7. "Asia" at Bretton Woods: India, China, and Australasia in Comparative Perspective.- 8. Assessing the 'Multilateral' Nature of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference: An Analysis of Indian Participation.- 9. Voice and Vote for the Weaker Nations: Mexico's Bretton Woods.- 10. Canada and Bretton Woods.- 11. Beyen at Bretton Woods: "...much more significant under the surface...".- 12. Dean Acheson, Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy.- 13. "New Lanes in Uncharted Seas": The Federal Reserve and Bretton Woods.- V. The Trade Follow-Up: The ITO and the GATT.- 14. The Man Who Wasn't There: Cordell Hull, Bretton Woods and the Creation of the GATT.- 15. Where Was Trade at Bretton Woods?.- 16. Bretton Woods, the International Trade Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization.