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But the ministers’ words will ring hollow if, as with similar statements made at prior G-20 summits in London and Toronto, member states do not translate them into action.
But November’s three summits – the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing, the East Asian Summit in Naypyidaw, and the G-20 meeting in Brisbane – should have the skeptics eating their words.
Other byproducts of both the Beijing and Brisbane summits were some usefully clear messages to Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the unacceptability of his Ukraine adventures (though Abbott’s message was more diplomatic than the “shirtfront” entertainment he promised); accelerated bilateral agreements (for example, a long-awaited Australia-China free trade treaty); and a deserved boost for Obama, following his party’s mid-term election drubbing a few days earlier.
All three of November’s meetings show that multilateral summits – at least when well prepared and properly conducted – can and do add value to global and regional governance in a number of ways.
Second, summits can be an antidote to inertia.
Finally, multilateral summits can achieve things that meetings of lesser political mortals cannot.
Last, but by no means least, summits build mutual trust and confidence among their participants, particularly if they are repeated at regular intervals and include ample time for one-on-one and small-group exchanges.
But maybe, just for once, they should acknowledge that, with the successive APEC, East Asia, and G-20 summits, pessimism has had a bad month.
The focus of G-20 summits on global tax evasion in recent years is also encouraging.
Though the initial aim of freezing stocks of plutonium and highly enriched uranium was not achieved, the four summits held since then have brought about a reduction in other sources of radioactive material, and safety measures have been improved.
Furthermore, the attendees at the G-20’s summits include heads of state and economic ministers, without whom no solution can be implemented.
Canceled summits, trade deals, or membership in diplomatic talking shops like the G-8 are not enough.
Summing up the Trump SummitsNEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki are history, as is the G7 summit in Quebec and the NATO summit in Brussels.
Some 30 years after the end of the Cold War, a four-decade era often punctuated by high-stakes, high-level encounters between American presidents and their Soviet counterparts, summits are back in fashion.
Summits can be bilateral or multilateral.
The principal reason summits are back is that they constitute Trump’s favored approach to diplomacy.
Traditionally, summits are scheduled only after months, or even years, of careful preparation by lower-ranking officials have narrowed or eliminated disagreements.
Summits have mostly been occasions to formalize what has already been largely agreed.
Summits for him are more engine than caboose.
The summits with both Kim and Putin took place with minimal preparation.
A third risk of summits that produce vague or no agreements is that they breed mistrust with allies and at home.
To be clear, the problem is not with summits per se.
There is a danger, though, in expecting too much from summits, especially in the absence of sufficient preparation or follow-up.
In such cases, summits merely increase the odds that diplomacy will fail, in the process contributing to geopolitical instability and uncertainty rather than mitigating it.
But, with Russia set to become a pariah, either pushed out of or withdrawing from global markets and multilateral forums, the days of BRICS summits and institutions, such as the group’s embryonic development bank, appear to be numbered.
But global summits and regional commitments are only part of the solution.
Although past summits have produced little more than talking points, the prospect for action is better this time, given that the talks will be held in Europe, where the impact of the migration crisis has been deeply felt.
As a result, the US Secretary of State has been reduced to little more than a sherpa for his boss’s summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The euro crisis, for example, was widely expected to destroy it; but, after a couple of years of tough summits, the issue was more or less handled.
Successful summits tend to be those that are well prepared.
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