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.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Evolution of the Group of Seven and the Re-Emergence of Global Finance; Chapter 3 Situating the Group of Seven in a Context of Decentralized Financial Globalization; Chapter 4 The Group of Seven and the Politics of Financial Ideas; Chapter 5 The Group of Seven as a Multi-Spatial Transgovernmental Actor in World Politics; Chapter 6 The Group of Seven and Macroeconomic Governance; Chapter 7 The Group of Seven and the Global Financial Architecture; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

Andrew Baker closely examines the collaboration between finance ministries and central banks from the major industrialized powers in the field of monetary and financial governance. It explores the G7 process and its role in modern economic life.