Table of Contents

Introduction: The Group of Seven and Global Financial Governance 1. The Evolution of the Group of Seven and the Re-Emergence of Global Finance: The Historical Context 2. Situating the Group of Seven in a context of ‘Decentralized Financial Globalization’ : A Four-Dimensional Framework 3. The Group of Seven and the Politics of Financial Ideas: The Durability of the Economic Consensus of the 1990s 4. The Group of Seven as a Multi-Spatial Transgovernmental Actor in World Politics: Four-Dimensional Diplomacy in Practice 5. The Group of Seven and Macroeconomic Governance: Discourse, Declaratory Policy and Market Supremacy 6. The Group of Seven and the Global Financial Architecture: The Institutional and Ideational Foundations of Market Supremacy Conclusions: Global Financial Governance and the Group of Seven as a Senior Transgovernmental Coalition

About the Author

Andrew Baker is Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He is the co-editor of Governing Financial Globalisation (Routledge, 2005) and has published in journals such as Review of International Political Economy and Global Governance.