1st Edition
Staying Together The G8 Summit Confronts the 21st Century
By Nicholas Bayne
Copyright 2005
261 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
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Following on from Hanging In There, this comprehensive volume empirically covers the summits from the UK meeting in Birmingham in 1998 to the UK meeting in 2005. In essence, this study reviews a full G8 cycle. The analytical framework rests on three general summit objectives: political leadership, reconciling international/domestic and collective management, and six subject-specific performance... Read more
Contents: Introduction: The Summit at 30: transition to a new century; The story so far: the G7 Summits 1975-1997. The First G8 Sequence, 1998-2004: Breaking free: Birmingham 1998; Debt and the Balkans: Cologne 1999; Summit performance I: financial issues and debt; Targeting development: Okinawa 2000; Transcending the riots: Genoa 2001; Summit performance II: trade issues and development; New directions: Kananaskis 2002; Reconciliation: Evian 2003; The shadow of Iraq: Sea Island 2004; Summit performance III: Africa, terrorism and non-proliferation. Conclusions: Concentrating the mind: summit process; Staying together: summit objectives; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Bayne, Nicholas
