Eric Helleiner: The Deep History of the North-South Dialogue

The Deep History of the North-South Dialogue: Neglected Southern Pioneers of International Development

Eric Helleiner’s lecture will build on his recent book The Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods, which shows how those gathered at the famous 1944 meeting in New Hampshire to build the postwar financial system included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world. He will demonstrate how their innovative proposals anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil.

Helleiner is Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy and Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Waterloo. He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics. His areas of specialization include Global Finance and Governance, International Political Economy, History of Political Economy, and North-South Economic Relations.

In addition to authoring and co-editing numerous books, Helleiner has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters on other issues relating to international political economy, and has been a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform and the High Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board. He has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, the Donner Book Prize, Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations, and the Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching. Helleiner has also served as Canada Research Chair, a CIGI Chair, and was founding Director of the MA and PhD Programs in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Presently, he is co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in Money, and has served as co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy and associate editor of the journal Policy Sciences. Helleiner has taught courses on topics such as global politics, international political economy, globalization, global governance, politics of global finance, the state and economic life, and North American integration.

This event is free and open to the public.