Managing Globalisation and the New Economy: The Contribution of the G8 Summit

The Okinawa G7/8 Summit, held on 21-23 July 2000, was the 26th such summit in an unbroken sequence going back to 1975. The first summit had only six members — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Canada and the European Union (EU) were soon added, forming the G7. Russia made it up to G8 at the Birmingham Summit of 1998.