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Category Archives: Global Governance for G20/G8
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
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
“Creeping Urgency” Still
The New York Times article today, “Leaders Say the They Expect Agreement on Aid for Spanish Banks This Year.” called leaders decision-making as “creeping urgency”. So where are European Leaders? Well kinda where they were months ago. … Continue reading
So it is a Tentative “Thumbs Up”
With our colleague Dan Drezner about to descend on the mighty University of Toronto, Dan was kind enough to alert me to a a recent Council on Foreign Relations Working Paper he’d just completed. Entitled, “The Irony of Global … Continue reading
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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
“So Easy” – Trashing Today’s Multilateralism
After a hurried return flight to Toronto, via San Francisco, I was trying to gather my thoughts and reflections on this last G20 Summit in Los Cabos. But before I could get there before I was “assaulted” by a piece … Continue reading
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In the Game but Wounded – The G20 at Los Cabos
A slightly bitter gathering of G20 Leaders. The tone was set yesterday when the Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, took a question from Toronto Sun Media reporter David Akin to push back against North American criticism of the … Continue reading
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Lightening Mood at G20 Leaders Summit Los Cabos
The gloom so reminiscent of the collective mood of officials and Leaders at Cannes seemed to lift this morning following the Greek election results. Even the press conference from EU officials Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council … Continue reading
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