The OECD and global economic governance

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Notes

1. This research was funded by an Australian Research Council grant (DP 0988492). I would like to acknowledge the input from various colleagues and the Australian Journal of International Affairs’ reviewers. Thank you also to Tim Woolley for his valuable research assistance.

2. In addition to the two books under review, a further two volumes were published in late 2010 and early 2011: Kerstin Martens and Anja P. Jakobi's (eds)(2010))Mechanisms for OECD Governance: International Incentives for National Policy-Making? (Oxford: Orford University Press)and Peter Carroll and Aynsley Kellow's (2011) The OECD and International Economics(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

3. One exception was Theodore Cohen's (2002) Governing Global Trade: International Institutions in Conflict and Convergence, which provided a detailed account of the OECD's role in trade negotiations. The last sole-authored monograph on the OECD published in English was Henry Aubrey's 1967 book Atlantic Cooperation: The Case of the OECD.

4. In June 2009, Rubens Ricupero, Brazil's ex-finance minister, argued that it would be ‘political suicide’ for Brazil to join the OECD, noting that its position is often at variance with that of OECD members (Kleber 2009).

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Richard Eccleston

Richard Eccleston is an Associate Professor in the School of Government at the University of Tasmania