Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making
Author: Cesare Merlini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351394975

Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main political and economic problems facing them. This book, first published in 1984, traces the development of the summit meetings and tries to assess their impact on western decision-making and international relations in general. The summits arose as the product of a serious crisis that shook the world economy in the early 1970s. They have been sustained because of the waning of the American hegemony that had supported the postwar international economic regime. From this it became vital for the leaders of the major economies to reassert collective leadership in order to try to re-establish a new world economic equilibrium.

The Political Economy Of International Organizations

The Political Economy Of International Organizations
Author: Roland Vaubel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000304507

The idea for this volume was conceived by Frederick Praeger, founder of Westview Press, who asked Roland Vaubel if he would put together a collection of chapters on the public choice approach to the study of international organizations. Vaubel felt it would be useful to have a coeditor from the United States, and Thomas D. Willett enthusiastically agreed to take on these duties.

The G8 System and the G20

The G8 System and the G20
Author: Peter I. Hajnal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317030907

The Group of Eight has become a central actor in global governance with a steadily expanding role and agenda. The leaders' summits remain at the apex of the G8 system, but the leaders' work is complemented by intensifying and expanding networks of ministerial fora as well as various task forces and expert groups. Some of these entities, initially launched by the leaders, have taken on a life of their own with an agenda that diverges from the main concerns of the summits. Following on from Hajnal's acclaimed book The G7/G8 System, this volume discusses the origins, characteristics, evolution, role and agenda of the G7 and G8 system, including a systematic survey of its components. It introduces the major debates about the G7 and G8, looks at proposals to reform the G8-G20 and provides a detailed study of the complex, elusive and changing patterns of documentation of the broader G8-G20 system, including electronic information.

Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s

Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s
Author: Eckart Conze
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107136288

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Partners for Prosperity

Partners for Prosperity
Author: Alan Donnelly Mep
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1994-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780788106873

The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization

The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization
Author: Chiara Oldani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429014937

The G7, a self-selected club of like-minded industrialized countries, looks at first glance ill-suited to address current anti-globalist concerns. Despite this, it has successfully confronted anti-globalization, populist and protectionist pressures by focussing on concerns surrounding the destruction of the natural environment, immigration, transnational crime, drugs, disease and terrorism, thus demonstrating the social and ecological advantages that globalization brings. Exploring how the world’s oldest informal summit institution continues to respond to rising anti-globalisation, populism and protectionism, this book investigates the contribution the G7 makes to global governance through its actions and accountability of its members. The expert contributors analyse from different perspectives the issues that have contributed to the rise of populism and protectionism, and how well the G7 has responded to them. Each contribution identifies avenues that might allow renewing and strengthening the role of the G7 in times of global change, with a view of strengthening its legitimacy and effectiveness. It will be of interest to policy makers, diplomats, scholars of international relations, international political economy, diplomacy, summitry and global governance. The issues discussed will also be particularly relevant to those working for civil society and non-governmental organizations seeking to participate in governance forums or to influence those who do.

Keeping International Commitments

Keeping International Commitments
Author: Eleonore Kokotsis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135683131

This study is the first to offer explanations for compliance with G7 commitments by identifying the patterns, explaining the causes and exploring the processes of this compliance from 1988-1995. It provides the only systematic review of the G7's compliance record in the post-Cold War globalizing system of the 1990s and in regard to important environment and development commitments that have often dominated the Summit's agenda during this third cycle of summitry. It draws on explanatory factors for Summit compliance from three bodies of international relations theory-including regime theory, concert theory and the recent extension of regime theory to embrace the effects of domestic political institutions.

US-West European Relations During the Reagan Years

US-West European Relations During the Reagan Years
Author: Steven K. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1992-06-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 134912737X

Using extensive survey data, the authors examine the major issues which dominated US-West European relations during the Reagan years. These include security issues, terrorism, economic relations, superpower relations, and American and Soviet images.

Autonomous Policy Making By International Organisations

Autonomous Policy Making By International Organisations
Author: Bob Reinalda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113471047X

This volume assesses the importance of international organisations in global governance during the last ten years. The prestigious team of international contributors seek to determine the ways in which IO's contribute to the solution of global problems by influencing international decision-making in ways that go beyond the lowest common denominator of national interests.

The G8 System and the G20

The G8 System and the G20
Author: Professor Peter I Hajnal
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1409495825

The Group of Eight has become a central actor in global governance with a steadily expanding role and agenda. The leaders' summits remain at the apex of the G8 system, but the leaders' work is complemented by intensifying and expanding networks of ministerial fora as well as various task forces and expert groups. Some of these entities, initially launched by the leaders, have taken on a life of their own with an agenda that diverges from the main concerns of the summits. Following on from Hajnal's acclaimed book The G7/G8 System, this volume discusses the origins, characteristics, evolution, role and agenda of the G7 and G8 system, including a systematic survey of its components. It introduces the major debates about the G7 and G8, looks at proposals to reform the G8-G20 and provides a detailed study of the complex, elusive and changing patterns of documentation of the broader G8-G20 system, including electronic information.