ABSTRACT
When the G8 met in Saint Petersburg in the summer of 2005 and the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested including India and China, the historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote:
In an ideal world, the state members of the G8 – or rather GX – would be the democracies having the world’s largest economies. That would mean kicking out Russia and including India and Brazil, making a new G9. I like this idea. Size matters, but so does freedom.2
