G20 Governance for a Globalized World
Global Finance Series

This book offers the most thorough, detailed inside story of the preparation, negotiation, performance, and achievements of G20 gatherings from their start at the finance level in 1999 through their rise to become leader-level summits in response to the great global financial crisis in 2008. Follow the moves of America?s George Bush and Barack Obama, Britain?s Gordon Brown and David Cameron, Canada?s Stephen Harper, Germany?s Angela Merkel, and other key leaders as they struggle to contain the worst global recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This book provides a full chapter-long account of each of the first four G20 summits from Washington to Toronto with summaries of the ensuing summits. It uses international relations theory to build and apply a model of systemic hub governance to back its central claim to show convincingly that G20 performance has grown to successfully govern an increasingly interconnected, complex, crisis-ridden, globalized twenty-first century world.

Part I Analysing G20 Governance; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Systemic Hub Model of G20 Governance; Part II Generating the Group, 1999–2001; Chapter 3 Creating the Group, Berlin 1999; Chapter 4 Governing Globalization, Montreal 2000; Chapter 5 Combating Terrorism, Ottawa 2001; Part III Equalizing the Influence, 2002–2007; Chapter 6 Driving Development, New Delhi 2002 and Morelia 2003; Chapter 7 Bonding Berlin, Berlin 2004; Chapter 8 Capturing China, Xianghe 2005; Chapter 9 Strengthening Sustainability, Melbourne 2006 and Kleinmond 2007; Part IV Creating the Summit Club,2008–2010; Chapter 10 Soaring to the Summit, Washington 2008; Chapter 11 Containing Contraction, London 2009; Chapter 12 Institutionalizing Summitry, Pittsburgh 2009; Chapter 13 Containing the Eurocrisis, Toronto 2010; Part V Conclusion; Chapter 14 The Future of G20 Governance;

John J. Kirton University of Toronto, Canada