With guest Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo

Roundtable discussion with:
Rita Abrahamsen (Ottawa)
Jacquie Best (Ottawa)
Juliet Johnson (McGill)
Randall Germain (Carleton)
Eric Helleiner (Waterloo)
Cristina Rojas (Carleton)

The Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods looks back to the agreements that formed the basis of the Bretton Woods system of international monetary relations. These are commonly portrayed as a product of bilateral Anglo-American negotiations in which the voices of poorer countries were largely absent and international development issues received little attention. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Forgotten Foundations challenges this account, showing how the Bretton Woods negotiations involved a pioneering North-South dialogue that anticipated contemporary efforts to reconcile liberal multilateralism with the development aspirations of countries such as China, India, Brazil and Mexico.

Eric Helleiner is Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs. His most recent books include Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods (2014), The Status Quo Crisis (2014) and (as co-editor) The Great Wall of Money (2014). He has been a Canada Research Chair and has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, Donner Book Prize and the Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is presently co-editor with Jonathan Kirshner of the book series Cornell Studies in Money.

Sponsored by The Department of Political Science & The Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University; and
International Political Economy Network, University of Ottawa