G8 As Multilateral Prism Posted by David Shorr

There's an interesting theme running through the latest posts on the excellent L'Aquila Summit blog of Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chatham House. Watching the choreography of the leaders gathered in Italy, the most important questions for the future of international cooperation look quite tangible. 

First there is the problem of the dueling Gs. As my Stanley Foundation colleague Keith Porter points out in a video interview, the overlapping agenda items of the G8 and G20 effectively make the two groups part of the same "rolling process."  Whether the leaders continue to see value in two such sets of meetings is an open matter. And even within the L'Aquila summit itself, there are so many different combinations meeting that "G8" may be a misnomer; the eight members are meeting for only a portion of the summit. CIGI's Andrew Cooper examines whether so much variable geometry packed into a few days is a drag on effectiveness. 

Chinese President Hu Jintao's hasty exit to go back and deal with the unrest in Xinjiang raises obvious points about China's major domestic challenges. But the immediate diplomatic task of representing China at L'Aquila also highlights the question of precisely what these presidents and prime ministers actually do at these meetings, which Gregory Chin (also of CIGI) delves. As Chin points out, the fact that the summit communique was largely written even before the leaders arrive prompts doubts about whether they are really wrestling with the tough questions. And then there is the matter of how key rising powers want to play, which is the focus of this Andrew Cooper post.

For me, the bottom line question for any multilateral forum is whether it delivers effective action. With the Gs -- organized, as they are, around summit meetings -- the question is all the more vital. As I argue in the latest issue of Courier (the Stanley Foundation's magazine) top-level political attention is a terrible thing to waste.

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I had heard that progress on kick-starting the global economy, increasing aid and food security in Africa, laying the foundations of a global climate regime and weaving stronger multilateral harnesses on nuclear proliferation are seen as relevant themes that the G8 is right to give priority to.

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