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The Economics of Strategic ContainmentNEW DELHI – At their recent summit in Cannes, the G-20 shelved, if not buried, the World Trade Organization’s moribund Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
These are real questions, yet at the NATO summit people spoke of them more in terms of symbols than as realities.
At the Strasbourg summit, confidence in the future could have been strengthened if a couple of troubling issues had been discussed.
The deal was finalized at the EU summit in Edinburgh, in December 1992, with help from British Prime Minister John Major and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Last week’s summit sharply defined the issue and focused attention in capitals the world over.
At a special summit called by the President Obama, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that opens a new chapter in the UN’s efforts to address nuclear proliferation and disarmament.
That is also why, next year at this time, we will convene a special summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
Either way, the Seoul G-20 summit will likely mark a watershed in the history of the post-war global political economy.
All this has taken on more than a little urgency, because it is now more than four months since the Singapore summit and there is talk that President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un will meet again soon.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel’s attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.
But even before the dispute flared in mid-June, China was seething over India’s boycott of its May 14-15 summit promoting the much-vaunted “Belt and Road” initiative.
Despite strenuous debate about currency issues and trade imbalances at its summit in Seoul in November, the sole area of agreement concerned an issue on the G-20’s agenda for the first time – economic development.
Whether Trump’s approach actually works with North Korea will depend on the diplomacy that follows the Singapore summit.
More money for Africa rather than more soothing words will be the true test of the summit.
In September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene an extraordinary summit dedicated to building a fair global system for protecting refugees and vulnerable migrants.
Later this month, they are meeting in New York at the UN as part of their preparations for the summit, with a particular focus on oceans.
It saddens me that great nations like Italy and France are going in the wrong direction and falling behind with the pledges they made four years ago at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.
It would be unimaginable for NATO heads of state to go ahead with their planned leadership summit in Warsaw in June if Poland remains in its constitutional crisis, with the government disregarding the rule of law and the opinion of a respected international body.
Indeed, when China’s Premier Wen Jiabao visited Prague in May 2009 for the 11th China-European Union summit, he explained that China is opposed to the G-2 concept.
The summit will face several hurdles from the outset.
At the upcoming summit, leaders should reiterate the importance of the EDA, whose budget has remained frozen at the insistence of certain member states.
It would be irresponsible to treat December’s Council meeting as just another summit.
Climate campaigners changed their approach after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate-change summit last December and the revelation of mistakes in the United Nations climate panel’s work – as well as in response to growing public skepticism and declining interest.
The change in message after the disaster of the Copenhagen summit was probably inevitable.
The heyday of international policy coordination, from 1978 to 1987, began with a G-7 summit in Bonn in 1978 and included the 1985 Plaza Accord.
The Germans, for example, regretted having agreed to joint fiscal expansion at the Bonn summit, because reflation turned out to be the wrong objective in the inflation-plagued late 1970s.
G-20 leaders agreed on coordinated expansionary policies at their London summit in April 2009.
For example, when the US urges German fiscal stimulus – as at it did in Bonn in 1978, in London in 2009, and at the G-20’s Brisbane summit in 2014 – it has in mind the “locomotive game,” in which fiscal stimulus has positive “spillover effects” on its trading partners.
But the G-20 remains very much a work in progress – and one that needs much work to succeed, as its most recent summit in Toronto demonstrated.
The G-20 summit in Washington in 2008 was the first at which the member countries’ chiefs of state met since the group’s creation in 1997.
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