Do G8 Summits Make a Real Difference?

The G8 Camp David Summit 2012: The Road to Recovery

2 Pages Posted: 4 Oct 2013

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Marina Larionova

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - Center for Studies of International Institutions

Ella Kokotsis

University of Toronto

Date Written: June 2012

Abstract

For the past 37 years, the annual G8 summits have generated a wide breadth of declarations and communiqués binding the leaders to hard commitments across a diverse range of global policy issues. The extent to which the G8 members comply with their annual commitments has, in recent years, become a hotly contested topic, pitting academics, politicians, policy wonks and newsmakers against each other in an effort to understand whether commitments by the G8 do, in fact, matter. Given this era of ongoing domestic political constraints and conflicting global demands, does the G8 have the ability and, indeed, the capacity not only to make, but also to keep the commitments its members collectively generate at their annual summits?

Keywords: G8, global governance, accountability

JEL Classification: F5

Suggested Citation

Larionova, Marina and Kokotsis, Ella, Do G8 Summits Make a Real Difference? (June 2012). The G8 Camp David Summit 2012: The Road to Recovery, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2335307

Marina Larionova (Contact Author)

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - Center for Studies of International Institutions ( email )

Ella Kokotsis

University of Toronto ( email )

Toronto, Ontario
Canada

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