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.

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.

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