Policy Experts’ Reports
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A Good Week for Global Governance and Summitry
Alan S Alexandroff and Yves Tiberghien For global governance watchers, this was THE big week of the year and summits galore! Between November 7th and November 16th, the world witnessed: […]
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Toward a New Japanese Role at the G20 Leaders Summit
Yves Tiberghien UBC – Political Science Japan is the third largest economy in the world and holds the second largest foreign reserves (over $USD1.1 trillion). Japan remains the second largest […]
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Japan’s position in GX summitry
Hugo Dobson The Group of 8 (G8) matters to Japan. Simply by participating in the first summit meeting of the G6 (and subsequently G7) at Rambouillet in November 1975, Japan […]
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US, China role play for ASEAN
Donald K Emmerson Asia Times Online, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MK23Ae01.html NUSA DUA, INDONESIA — Southeast Asian policymakers looking north to the Asian mainland and east across the Pacific Ocean see two major, different, […]
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America pivots toward ASEAN
Donald K Emmerson Asia Times Online, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MK23Ae01.html Kampial, Indonesia – To the sounds of a gamelan orchestra, white-dressed Balinese pay ritual homage to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and […]
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Real Advances for Global Governance at the Cannes G20 – In spite of the Euro Saga
Yves Tiberghien UBC – Political Science As soon as the show stopped in Cannes, the European and American press were quick to criticize its deficiencies: the inability of the G20 […]
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At G20: China a Balancer Between US and EU
Wang Yong Peking University The G20 Summit in Cannes, from November 3 to 4, 2011, is possibly the last chance to prevent the beginning of a serious global financial meltdown. […]
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The Death and Return of Middle Power Influence in Global Governance
Andrew F. Cooper Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo/BSIA Distinguished Fellow, CIGI Global power structures are continuously in flux. Changes in the international or domestic environments can elevate […]
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G-20 Summit Post-Game Analysis
David Shorr Art: Boris Basin When we watch the planet’s most powerful men and women assembled in an effort to navigate the global economy’s current rough seas — as G-20 […]
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