At The G20 St. Petersburg Summit

For the last several days I have been in St. Petersburg Russia to attend the G20 Leaders Summit.  A number of colleagues have joined me here at the media center at the Summit.  I thought before the release of the Communique and related documents that I would hold a series of interviews with colleagues to get their take on the Summit.

First a conversation with Yves Tiberghien a Senior Fellow at the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia.

Yves …

 

 

The Stars Appear to Not Be Aligned – The G20 Summit in St. Petersburg

So putting the last items in the bag for the trip to St. Petersburg.  This one looks like trouble.  Five years in to G20 Leaders Summits and St.  Petersburg would appear to have all the characteristics of a major distraction.  This would not be the first.  I certainly remember how the Greek Euro crisis drove France’s G20 Agenda at Cannes right off the cliff.  It would appear that Syria – and the use of military force in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons –  could be even more of an agenda killer.