Abstract
This chapter carries out the operationalization of the concept of political asymmetry at the Bretton Woods Institutions. It conducts inquiry directed to analyze such property within their historical biography, institutional architecture, operational goals and their special features over the process of production of normative constructions at the global level. The aim in the present chapter is to set the ground for further explorations about how conditions of political asymmetry on international organizations have substantive consequences in the definition of the meaning of widely accepted norms. While this chapters focuses exclusively on the analysis of the Bretton Woods Institutions, its secondary goal is to enhance the debate about the implications of asymmetries on institutions for governance.