Author: Marina Larionova
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Languages : en
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As the global community reflects on the contentious outcomes of the summits of the Group of 20 (G20) and looks to future presidencies to come up with ambitious agendas, the legitimacy and effectiveness of both the G20 and the Group of Seven (G7) and the Group of Eight (G8) are put to the test. The G20's claim to serve as the premier forum for its members' international economic cooperation needs to be supported by its ability to show political leadership in steering the world to a new international order, deliver on its pledges, account for decisions made at its summits, and engage with a wide range of partners. The G20's early success in managing the global financial crisis does not predetermine its role as a global governance steering committee. Although it may have eclipsed the smaller group, assertions of the demise of the G7/8 are premature. Much qualitative analysis supports the sometimes contradictory perspectives on the future of G7/8 and G20 summitry. This chapter attempts to put both institutions within the same assessment paradigm using a functional approach. This approach allows a comparison of the G7/8 and G20 across three groups of indicators: the performance of global governance functions, accountability, and compliance; contribution to the global governance agenda; and engagement with other international institutions. It thus contributes to a quantifiable evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of these two institutions and informing the forecast of their future roles. This analysis looks at the balance and dynamics of the main global governance functions of deliberation, direction setting, decision making, delivery, and the development of global governance as expressed in G7/8 and G20 documents, including summit declarations, ministerial statements, progress reports, and material issued by officials and working groups. Contribution to the global governance agenda was assessed on the basis of comparative weights of the key issues in G8 and G20 documents, the dynamics of their agendas, and responsiveness to new challenges. Finally, the contribution of the two groups to effective multilateralism was assessed on the basis of the intensity and modes of engagement with other multilateral institutions on key priorities and values. The analysis covers the period from 2008, when the G20 leaders first began meeting, to 2013.
Author: Marina Larionova
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317030877
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolving and optimal relationship between them. One answer arose from the G20’s third summit, when it proclaimed the G20 would govern global finance and economics, while the old G8 would focus on development and security. Yet this rough division of labour did not address which issues lay within each category and how interconnections would be addressed to create comprehensive, coherent global governance for a complex world. This volume considers these questions. It explores the summits’ performance, the division of labour during their coexistence, their comparative strengths and limitations, and how the future partnership could be improved to benefit the global community. The authors explain the recent evolution and performance of the G8 and G20 summits and their evolving empirical relationship. They consider the G8/G20 relationship with other actors engaged in global governance, notably the major multilateral organizations and civil society. They assess G7/8 and G20 effectiveness and accountability. And they identify, based on this empirical and analytical foundation, how the relationship can be improved for today’s tightly wired world.
Author: Chiara Oldani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429014945
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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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.
Author: John Kirton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317185889
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The global community confronts a comprehensive and interconnected array of compelling economic, development and security challenges which require effective global governance. At the centre of world governance stand the new plurilateral summit institutions; the G8 and G20, and UN summits on subjects such as sustainable development and climate change. Many observers and participants regard the performance of these summits as inadequate and doubt their ability to cope with increasingly complex and numerous global challenges. This book critically examines how effectively central global institutions comply with their commitments and how their effectiveness can be improved through accountability measures designed to raise compliance and deliver better results. Expert contributors assess compliance and accountability at the key global institutions to provide an important resource for policymakers and scholars in political science, governance and accountability. For additional information and data relating to the book, please visit: http://www.g7g20.utoronto.ca/accountability/
Author: Marina Larionova
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Languages : en
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This paper attempts to put G8 and G20 institutions within the same assessment paradigm on the basis of a functional framework. This approach allows comparing the G8 and G20 across at least three groups of indicators: performance of global governance functions, accountability and compliance performance; contribution towards global governance agenda; and engagement with the other international institutions. It begins with outlining the methodology, and goes over to the main findings and conclusions on each of the dimensions. Thus the study contributes to building a quantifiable evidence base for an assessment of the G20 and G8 effectiveness and to inform forecast of their future roles.
Author: John J. Kirton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317030192
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Climate change control has risen to the top of the international agenda. Failed efforts, centred in the United Nations, to allocate responsibility have resulted in a challenge now reaching crisis stage. John J. Kirton and Ella Kokotsis analyse the generation and effectiveness of four decades of intergovernmental regimes for controlling global climate change. Informed by international relations theories and critical of the prevailing UN approach, Kirton and Kokotsis trace the global governance of climate change from its 1970s origins to the present and demonstrate the effectiveness of the plurilateral summit alternative grounded in the G7/8 and the G20. Topics covered include: - G7/8 and UN competition and convergence on governing climate change - Kyoto obligations and the post-Kyoto regime - The role of the G7/8 and G20 in generating a regime beyond Kyoto - Projections of and prescriptions for an effective global climate change control regime for the twenty-first century. This topical book synthesizes a rich array of empirical data, including new interview and documentary material about G7/8 and G20 governance of climate change, and makes a valuable contribution to understanding the dynamics of governing climate change. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, and policy makers interested in the dynamics behind governance processes within the intergovernmental realm.
Author: Peter I. Hajnal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317030915
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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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.
Author: Marina Larionova
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Global governance is the reality of the contemporary world. The Group of Seven (G7) and Group of Eight (G8) and the Group of 20 (G20) are indispensable institutions of contemporary global governance, and global governance institutions should be answerable for their actions (or inactions) (Scholte 2011a). Accountability processes should thus be inherent to global governance and can improve governance. In the global governance system, the G7/8 and G20 stand out as powerful informal institutions, and much of the critique of their accountability deficit derives from the fact that they were established and act without any formal act of authorization. Another reason for the claim of the accountability gap is that the three components of accountability - namely, standards for accountability, sanctions, and information - do not work properly (Grant and Keohane 2005). The G7/8's standards of accountability behaviour have a longer and better track record than those of the G20; however, the lack of a sanction mechanism and the lack of information or transparency make demands for improving accountability fully valid. Instead, G7/G8/G20 summitry is a case of transnational accountability with two main sources for accountability: reputational and peer pressure. For the G7/8, a third source of accountability is shared norms and democratic values. Nevertheless, both the G7/8 and the G20 submit their performance to accountability mechanisms, although there is no 'authorized or institutionalized accountability relationship when the requirement to report, and the right to sanction, are mutually understood and accepted' (Keohane 2002, 12). The leaders mandate their internal structures in the form of ministerial meetings, experts groups, and working groups to report on the progress made on decisions. G20 leaders also ask relevant international organizations to monitor and report publicly on G20 compliance with their pledges. There are also examples of actors (such as nongovernmental organizations [NGOs], academic institutions, or international organizations) seeking to hold the G7/8 and G20 accountable on the normative justifications of the impact of their decisions on the societies and economies of their member states and global society. Such a claim is valid if 'accountability is a condition and process whereby an actor answers for its conduct to those whom it affects' (Scholte 2011b, 16). These considerations have underwritten this review of a flow of 'accountability' reports made public in the G8/G20 process between 2008 and 2013. By October 2013 a total of 206 such reports had been published for both institutions. That number grew rapidly, especially pertaining to the G20, with 53 accountability reports released between July 2012 and October 2013 alone. The two main types of reports were those authorized by the G7/8 or G20 and those initiated by actors seeking to hold them accountable. Report authors can be classified broadly as G7/G8/G20 structures, international institutions, academic institutions, and NGOs. This chapter examines how these reports addressed the four accountability aspects of transparency, consultation, evaluation, and correction (see Scholte 2011a). Several features of the reports were used as indicators of these four qualities. The provision of an evidence base and data for each of the members individually, rather than in an aggregated form, enhances transparency, and hence illustrates the quality of transparency. Recommendations provided by the report's authors to the G8/G20 promote consultation. Scorings or ratings give clear signals of the evaluation results, and were regarded as indications of evaluation. Each report was assessed against these three functions, with one score for transparency, one score for evaluation, and one score for consultation. As the fourth quality of correction is the prerogative of the actors affected - namely the G8 and G20 - the reports could not be assessed on this aspect of accountability. Documents were included in the analysis if they contained elements of accountability, even if they were not formally positioned as accountability reports.
Author: Marina Larionova
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317030885
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolving and optimal relationship between them. One answer arose from the G20’s third summit, when it proclaimed the G20 would govern global finance and economics, while the old G8 would focus on development and security. Yet this rough division of labour did not address which issues lay within each category and how interconnections would be addressed to create comprehensive, coherent global governance for a complex world. This volume considers these questions. It explores the summits’ performance, the division of labour during their coexistence, their comparative strengths and limitations, and how the future partnership could be improved to benefit the global community. The authors explain the recent evolution and performance of the G8 and G20 summits and their evolving empirical relationship. They consider the G8/G20 relationship with other actors engaged in global governance, notably the major multilateral organizations and civil society. They assess G7/8 and G20 effectiveness and accountability. And they identify, based on this empirical and analytical foundation, how the relationship can be improved for today’s tightly wired world.
Author: Colin I. Bradford
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815721455
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Offers steps to bring the G20 into even more relevance in becoming a leading force in the global economy, rivaling even that of the G8. Original.
