New Perspectives on Global Governance: Why America Needs the G8

by Savona,Paolo; Kirton,John J.

• ISBN13: 9780754644774
• ISBN10: 0754644774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

On its 30th anniversary in 2004 responsibility for hosting the G8 Summit fell into the hands of an allegedly unilateralist America. An America still reeling from the shock of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the resulting economic recession, bitter divisions with its NATO allies and disappointment with the United Nations Institutions over the 2003 Iraq war.So why does America still need the G8? New Perspectives on Global Governance offers new insight into the role of the Group of Eight's major market democracies and challenges the assumption that the G8 is simply a forum for binding a unilateralist hegemonic America. In contrast to seeing the G8 as a means of imposing an American world order this unique collection of new writings suggests that a now vulnerable America must rely on the G8 as a central instrument of foreign policy. America needs the G8 to achieve its security, economic and political interests in the world and to shape the twenty-first central global order it so desperately wants.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Figures	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Preface and Acknowledgements	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xvii
INTRODUCTION
Introduction	3	(12)
Michele Fratianni
John J. Kirton
Alan M. Rugman
Paolo Savona
PART I: THE G8 IN THE PAST AND IN THE FUTURE
Do We Need the G8 Summit? Lessons from the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future	15	(16)
Nicholas Bayne
America at the G8: From Vulnerability to Victory at the Sea Island Summit	31	(20)
John J. Kirton
Russia in the G8: From Sea Island 2004 to Russia 2006	51	(16)
Victoria Panova
The G8 in a Globalising World: Does the United States Need the G8?	67	(16)
Bernhard May
PART II: PROSPERITY AND SECURITY
Advancing American Security Interests through the G8	83	(22)
Risto E. J. Penttila
Economic Growth and National Security	105	(14)
David B. Audretsch
Richard M. Stazinski
T. Taylor Aldridge
Borders and International Terrorism	119	(18)
Michele Fratianni
Heejoon Kang
The G8 and the Governance of Cyberspace	137	(16)
Jeffrey A. Hart
U.S. Energy Security and Regional Business	153	(16)
Alan M. Rugman
PART III: FINANCE AND SECURITY
Combating Black Money: International Co-operation and the G8	169	(24)
Donato Masciandaro
Terrorist Finance: Within the Grip of the G8?	193	(12)
George M. von Furstenberg
PART IV: THE G8 AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY
Summitry and Trade: What Sea Island Could Do for Doha	205	(8)
Sylvia Ostry
Effective or Defective? The G8 and Multilateral Trade Negotiations	213	(18)
Heidi K. Ullrich
CONCLUSION
New Perspectives on the G8	231	(52)
John J. Kirton
Michele Fratianni
Alan M. Rugman
Paolo Savona
DOCUMENTARY APPENDICES
A Chair's Summary
Sea Island, 10 June 2004	259	(4)
B G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
Boca Raton, Florida, 6--7 February 2004	263	(6)
C G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
Washington DC, 23--24 April 2004	269	(4)
D G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
New York, 23 May 2004	273	(2)
E G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
Washington DC, 1--3 October 2004	275	(6)
F G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
Berlin, 20--21 November 2004	281	(2)
Bibliography	283	(20)
Index	303