1st Edition

International Summitry and Global Governance The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991

Edited By Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Federico Romero Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice that took off only in the mid-1970s. The aim of the book is to explore the origins of this new... Read more

Introduction – Analysing the Rise of Regular Summitry, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero  Part I: New Tools for International and European Governance  1. Twentieth-Century Summitry and the G7 Process, David Reynolds  2. The Foundations of Summitry, Nicholas Bayne  3. The Road to Rambouillet and the Creation of the Group of Five, Elizabeth Benning  4. Less than a Permanent Secretariat, more than an ad-hoc Preparatory Group: a Prosopography of the G7’s Personal Representatives, 1975-1991, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol  5. Between Political Messages and Public Expectations: G7 Summits in French and US Public Opinions, 1975-1985, Noël Bonhomme  Part II: Global and Western Challenges  6. Refashioning the West to Dispel its Fears: the Early G7 Summits, Federico Romero  7. Creating the Expectation of a Collective Response: the Impact of Summitry on Transatlantic Relations, N. Piers Ludlow  8. The Rise of Summitry and EEC-Japan Trade Relations, Hitoshi Suzuki  9. The Road to Cancun: the Life and Death of a North-South Summit, Guia Migani  10. G7s, European Councils and East-West Economic Relations, 1975-1982, Angela Romano  Conclusions, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero

Biography

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, and is the author of A Europe Made of Money: the Emergence of the European Monetary System (2012).

Federico Romero is Professor of History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration, European University Institute, Florence, and author/editor of 14 books (in English and Italian), including Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War (edited with S. Pons, Routledge 2005) and The Frontier of National Sovereignty: History and Theory 1945-1992 (with A.S. Milward, F. Lynch, R. Ranieri and V. Sorensen, Routledge, 1993).