G20 Governance for a Globalized World

Name: G20 Governance for a Globalized World
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This study mobilizes classic and contemporary international relations theory to explain the causes of observed G20 governance, and on this basis offers some concluding predictions about its future course. In particular it offers an account grounded in the competitive dynamics among international institutions in a crowded world, rather than one based merely on the older model of forum-shopping among states in an anarchic system. > 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\u2019s George Bush and Barack Obama, Britain\u2019s Gordon Brown and David Cameron, Canada\u2019s Stephen Harper, Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, and other key leaders as they struggle to contain the worst global recession since the Great Depa