Crise, poderes, interesses e estratégias: o G-20 e a governança monetária e financeira contemporânea

Abstract

This is a study on the contemporary international monetary and financial system. Specifically, is being analyzed an arrangement of its own governance and how the chief governments reacted to the financial crisis started in the US in 2008. The work seeks to understand the limits and possibilities of one of the arrangements of global monetary and financial governance: the G- 20 during the acute context of the international economic crisis. Here, the possible outcomes are evaluated in terms of governance in the international monetary and financial field achieved by the major states in and from the G-20. In this way, it will review the performance of major governments operating in the G-20 to identify prospects, limitations and scope of a global monetary and financial governance initiative. It comes to a general conclusion that the international monetary and financial governance, in its current form, is adapted to the respective conditions of the International Monetary and Financial System of the XXI century: an unstable system, subject to crises and whose governance, via institutional arrangements, is limited