Politics of the New International Financial Architecture

Susanne Soederberg taught International Political Economy at the University of Alberta, Canada and is currently an Associate Professor in Development Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Her work has been published in journals such as: Latin American Perspectives, Third World Quarterly, Global Governance, Review of International Political Economy, Historical Materialism, and the Socialist Register.

• 1. Transcending the 'Common Sense' of the New International Financial Architecture2. The Mexican Peso Crisis and the Foundations of the New International Financial Architecture3. The New International Financial Architecture: A New Procrustean Bed for the South?4. Unravelling Washington's Judgement Calls: The Cases of the Chilean and Malaysian Capital Controls5. Deconstructing the New International Standard of Corporate Governance: An Emerging Disciplinary Strategy for the South?6. Linkages between the New International Financial Architecture and the Emerging Development Architecture: The Case of the Monterrey Consensus

'Full of facts and persuasive arguments, Susanne Soederberg's book deconstructs the 'commonsense' understanding of the new international financial architecture that the United States has imposed on the world over the last twenty years.'Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century' I highly recommend the analysis of this book to all those who are struggling for another pattern of globalization based on social and international justice.'Samir Amin'This book is an invaluable resource to international activists who are struggling to be architects of a better future for humanity, and who know that the world must change profoundly if it is to change at all.'Molly Kane, Inter Pares