ABSTRACT
Despite the large number of regional and global summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of this particular type of diplomatic practice. While recognizing that the growing importance of summits is a universal phenomenon, this volume takes advantage of the richness of the Americas experiment to offer a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of contemporary summitry.
The book addresses questions such as:
- How effective have summits been ?
- How have civil society and other non-state actors been involved in summits?
- How have summits impacted on the management of regional affairs?
Filling a significant void in the literature, this volume offers an original contribution helping to understand how summitry has become a central feature of world politics. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of diplomacy, international organizations, and global/regional governance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Summitry in context
part II|104 pages
Case studies—Americas
chapter 4|17 pages
Presidential diplomacy in UNASUR
part III|54 pages
Case studies—World
chapter 10|16 pages
Assessing the role of G7/8/20 meetings in global governance
chapter 11|18 pages
BRICS and re-shaping the model of summitry
part IV|26 pages
Practitioners' point of view