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Category Archives: Global Summitry
Without Trust and Without Paranoia: US-China Relations
It was a time for informal face-to-face contact – just ended – the California summit between Presidents Xi and Obama. There is a strand of global summitry that emphasizes contact between leaders. Such contact can be disastrous of course. Kennedy’s … Continue reading
Caucuses, Counterweights or Leadership – The Evolution of the G20
A quick trip to London enabled me to enjoy the valuable discussion at a small gathering brought together at Chatham House. The conference sponsored by Chatham House and the Australian Lowy Institute spent the good part of a day examining … Continue reading
The ‘Hare and the Tortoise’ – Global Media and their Continuing Harsh Assessment of the G20
Now I think it was my colleague Dan Drezner over at Foreign Policy who spent some time – at the moment I am at a loss to remember the exact piece – defending the G20 against the dismissive attacks that … Continue reading
Rising to a Summit – Australia’s Kevin Rudd and US-China Leaders
Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia has been on the “speechifying path” recently – I guess that’s what comes with others running the show. He has been in North America and in the granddaddy … Continue reading
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Where To? – Russia at the Helm of the G20
So a quick trip to Moscow! Moscow you say – in December? Yes indeed. Russia took over hosting of the G20 Leaders Summit on December 1, 2012 and decided to declare a kind of G20 ‘Party’ of sorts. To initiate … Continue reading
Still Looking for an Apt Description – G20 and Global Summitry
As I was catching up on my global governance reading – yes, this is what I do at the beach – I came across a study by by two Brookings scholars – Homi Kharas and Domenico Lombardi on the G20 … Continue reading
Measuring Success – The G20 and Food Security
There continues to be a raging debate – all right so in global governance and global summitry there is hardly likely to be a raging anything – but there continues to be a serious difference of opinion among officials and … Continue reading
“Pivots” and Great Powers – From One Side
The ASEAN meetings last week – and especially the debate – or non-debate as it turned out over territorial challenges in the South China Sea, raised again the question of the US-China relations. Secretary Clinton expressed publicly again the … Continue reading
Building – and Not Building – in Asia for Global Transition
While much of the attention in global summitry has been on the informal G20 “high table”, not unreasonably, there has been architectural action elsewhere in global summitry that warrants examination. For “IR wonks” – needless to say I am … Continue reading
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Leaders and Outcomes in the Los Cabos G20 Summit
So I am sitting here in the freezing cold of one of the press rooms at the G20 Summit. I could go outside, of course, and I certainly won’t be freezing any longer. In any case enough of the weather … Continue reading
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