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Meeting of the Speakers of the Lower Houses of the G8, Ottawa, September 9-12, 2010
Final G20 declaration of the Toronto Summit
Chair's report to sherpas on capacity building
2010 Muskoka G8 final communiqué and reports on counter terrorism, the Global Partnership and capacity building
Program for 2010 Muskoka Summit
Who's coming to the Muskoka G8 Summit
Muskoka Accountability Report released, June 20, 2010
Statement by G20 finance ministers and central bankers, Busan, Korea, June 5, 2010
G20 finance ministerial, Gyeongju, Korea, October 22-23, 2010
Statement by G20 finance ministers on euro area measures, May 10, 2010
Statement by G7 finance ministers on European stabilization, May 9, 2010
Statement by G8 leaders on the anniversary of the end of World War II
Canadian foreign minister Lawrence Cannon to address G8 officials, Gatineau, Quebec, May 3, 2010
G8 development ministers meeting chair's summary, Hailfax, April 28, 2010
G20 finance ministers communiqué, April 23, 2010
G20 labour ministers issue recommendations, April 21, 2010
Joint letter from G20 leaders, March 29, 2010
Canadian chair of G8 foreign ministerial statement, March 30, 2010
G8 foreign ministers' statement on nuclear non-proliferation, March 30, 2010
Stephen Harper: Statement to the G8 foreign minsters, March 30, 2010
G8 foreign ministers issue statement on Afghanistan, March 29, 2010
G8 foreign ministers announce Afghanistan-Pakistan prosperity initiative, March 29, 2010
Backgrounders on issues on the G8 foreign ministers' agenda, March 29, 2010
G8 foreign ministers statement on Moscow terrorist attacks, March 29, 2010
G8 development ministers, Halifax, NS, April 26-28, 2010
G7 finance ministerial, Iqaluit, February 6, 2010: Chair's Summary
G20 Seoul Summit, November 11-12, 2010
Stephen Harper: World Economic Forum address, January 28, 2010
Lee Myung-bak: Seoul G20 Summit — Priorities and Challenges
Stephen Harper: Canada's G8 Priorities, January 26, 2010
G20 statement on Haiti, January 14, 2010
G20 summit, June 26-27, 2010, Toronto
G7 finance ministers, February 5-6, 2010, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
G20 finance ministerial, November 6-7, 2009, Scotland: communiqué and progress report
G8 foreign ministers statement on Afghan elections, November 3, 2009
G8 foreign ministers, March 2010, Gatineau, Quebec
Statement by G7 finance ministers and central bankers, Istanbul, October 3, 2009
G20 Leaders Statement, Pittsburgh, September 25, 2009
Geithner's briefing on the G20, September 24, 2009
G20 banking statement, London, September 5, 2009
G20 finance ministerial statement, September 5, 2009, London
Statements and documents from the L'Aquila G8 Summit, including summary, Major Economies Forum, Heiligendamm Process
List of participants at the G8 L'Aquila Summit
G8 foreign minister statements on Pakistan and Afgianstan, Trieste, June 26-27, 2009
Statement of the chair of the G8 foreign ministers meeting, Trieste, June 26, 2009
G8 finance ministers statement with framework, June 13, 2009
G8 development ministers: chair's summary, 12, 2009
Third G20 summit, Pittsburgh, September 24-25, 2009
G8 energy ministers statements, including joint statements, May 25, 2009
G8 foreign ministers issue statement on Sri Lanka, April 25, 2009
G8 environment ministers summary and biodiversity charter, April 24, 2009, Siracusa
G7 finance ministers and central bankers statement, April 24, 2009, Washington
Statement by U.S. treasury secretary Tim Geithner, April 24, 2009, Washington
2009 G8 summit venue may change, April 23, 2009
G8 agriculture ministers' final declaration, April 18-20, 2009, Treviso, Italy
G8 labour ministers statements, including Brazil, Mexico, India, South Africa and Egypt, Rome, March 28-31, 2009
G20 leaders' communiqué and annexes, London, April 2, 2009
Statement of Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, Russian finance ministers, March 14, 2009
G20 finance communiqué and annex, March 14, 2009
G7 finance ministers and central bankers statement, Rome, February 14, 2009
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What's New
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Paolo Savona: The euro and the Greek crisis: a new international monetary scenario
Amandine Scherrer: Offshore jurisdictions
Ahmad Muhammad Ali: The role of Islamic finance in the post-crisis world
Muhammad Yunus: Social business and the G8/G20
Domenico Lombardi: The G20, the International Monetary Fund and global surveillance
Juan Somavia: Generating Jobs, Sustaining Growth
Paul Martin: Making Globalization Work
Robert Fauver: Prospects for Global Growth
Sir John Holmes: Building effective humanitarian responses for the 21st century
Angel Gurria: Sustaining Global Growth — A Strategic Approach to Development
Sylvia Ostry: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
William White: The Importance of Collective Action and Strong Policy Frameworks
Ban Ki-moon: Keeping the Promise of the Millennium Development Goals
Robin Lennox: G8 Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Fails to Eliminate Global Gap
Japanese-language publications on the G8 and the G20
Peter Hajnal: The World Religions Summit – the Interfaith Leaders in the G8 Nations, Notes of an Observer
John Kirton: In Substance, the Summits Were a Success, Toronto Star
Plans and preparations for the G20 summit (as of July 22/10)
John Kirton: The G20 and Multilateral Reform
John Kirton, James Orbinski and Jenilee Guebert: The Case for a Global Health Strategy for Canada
Tu Xinquan: China's Role in a World in Crisis (in English and Chinese)
Fact Sheet: G8 and G20 summit costs over the years (updated July 5, 2010)
Report on 2010 G8/G20 summit security costs from Canada's Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Now available: G8 & G20: The 2010 Canadian Summits, by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Sara Shearkhani: Iran's Response to the G8 Muskoka Leaders Declaration
2010 Muskoka Country Assessment, Issue Assessment and Extended Dialogue Report now available
Susan Khazaeli: Reflections on Iran's Nuclear Program at the 2010 G8 Muskoka Summit
Alan Alexandroff: Still, A Part-Time Leader
John Kirton: From Muskoka to Toronto to Seoul in G8-G20 Global Health Governance
Caroline Bracht: Taking Stock of Accountability at the 2010 Muskoka Summit
Jenilee Guebert: What Happened to Maternal and Child Health Initiative at the 2010 G8 Muskoka Summit?
Money mobilized by the Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
John Kirton: A Big Baby Step Forward – The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Children's Health
Naoto Kan: Japan's Responsibilities – G20, G8 and APEC (in English, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Arabic, Turkish)
Barack Obama: From Crisis to Recovery (in English, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Arabic, Turkish)
Lee Myung-bak: The G20 – A Timely Forum (in English, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Arabic, Turkish)
Harry Skinner: G8 Ocean Governance, 1975-2010
Civil Society activities: statements from 2010 Interfaith Leaders and Forum International de Montréal
Fact Sheets: G8 and G20 data on climate change control and on energy
Progress through Partnership: Prospects for the 2010 Muskoka-Toronto Summits, by John Kirton (draft of June 24/10)
Plans and preparations for Canada's 2010 Muskoka Summit (as of June 23/10)
G8 Muskoka Summit program
Compliance report on G20 Pittsburgh commitments, from HSE
Coverage of G8 Research Group's press conference on compliance report.
Janice Stein and John Kirton on the G8 and G20 (click on "G8/G20 Insights")
G8 Research Group final compliance report on 2009 commitments now available
Stephen Harper, Canadian prime minister: Recovery and New Beginnings [English, French, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesia, Japanese, Chinese]
Lee Myung-bak, Korean president: The G20: A Timely Forum
Lee Dong-hwi: A Nuclear-Free World and Korea
David Shorr: A Bigger Table, A Broader Agenda
Trevor Findlay: The Contributions and Challenges of Nuclear Energy
Watch the address by The Honourable Lawrence Cannon here
Watch the address by The Honourable Peter Van Loan here
CORRECTION: G8 compliance report will be released on June 21, 2010
Watch the address by Senator Mike Duffy on "The G8, the G20 and Canada's Agenda; How Canadian Public Policy
Contributes to the Summits of 2010"
Watch the address by the Hon. Bev Oda, Canada's Minister of International Cooperation, on the Role of the G8 in International Development
Report on economic impact of the 2005 Gleneagles Summit
Find a Munk School expert on the G8 and G20 here
Beaver at the 1988 G7 Toronto Summit, and other archival video footage
Fact Sheet: Economic Benefits of Hosting G8 and G20 Summits
Policy briefs on the G8 Muskoka Summit (updated)
Assessment of G8 commitments on maternal and child health
Alan Alexandroff, David Shorr and Wang Zaibang — Leadership and the Global Governance Agenda: Three Voices
Paul Martin speaks on the G20 at the Empire and Canadian Clubs, June 2, 2010
John Kirton: The G20's Approach to Financial Risk and Risk Management
Africa Progress panel releases report on the G8 and Africa
ONE releases report on the G8 and Africa
John Kirton: The G20 Summit as International Negotiation Process
Fact Sheets: G8 and development, G8 and G20 economic indicators, G8 and G20 global health indicators
John Kirton: The G8-G20 Role and Relationship
Fact Sheets: G8 and G20 military capabilities and demographics
Jenilee Guebert on the G8 and global health in Paul C. Webster's CMAJ article
Accountability record of the G8 and G20 on development, April 2010
Canada-Korea High-Level G20 Seminar: Report 2010
Jenilee Guebert and John Kirton: Accountability Report on Arms Control and Non-proliferation: The G8’s Compliance Record from 1975 to 2009
John Kirton: Why the World Needs G8 and G20 Summitry
Alan S. Alexandroff: Challenges in Global Governance: Opportunities for G-x Leadership
2009 G8 Interim Compliance Report released
G8 summit conclusions on Iran
Jennifer Gronau: G7/G8 Artifacts and the Politics of Self-Representation
Martin Nonhoff, Jennifer Gronau, Frank Nullmeier and Steffen Schneider: The Politicization of International Institutions — The Case of the G8
John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert: The Climate Change–Health Connection
John Kirton: Assessing G8 and G20 Performance, 1975-2009
John Kirton on BNN (tv) on the Iqaluit G7 finance ministerial
Background papers on children's and maternal health (Conference: Accountability, Innovation and Coherence in G8 Health Governance: Seizing Canada's G8 Opportunity)
G8 summit conclusions on reform of international financial institutions, and on development
Erin Fitzgerald: G8 Research Group student leader wins Rhodes scholarship
G8 summit conclusions on macroeconomics from 1975 to 2009
John Kirton's The G20: Representativeness, Effectiveness and Leadership in Global Governance
G8 commitments on health, 1975-2009
G8 summit conclusions on natural disasters
All G8 commitments from 1975 to 2009
Compliance with G8 Commitments on Maternal and Children's Health, 1975-2009
John Kirton: A Committed Contributor – Japan in G8 and G20 Governance
G8 summit conclusions on financial crises, China, energy, migration, children, the Balkans and more
Just published: Making Global Economic Governance Effective, edited by John Kirton, Marina Larionova and Paolo Savona
John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert: Health Accountability: The G8's Compliance Record from 1975 to 2009
John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert: Climate Change Accountability: The G8's Compliance Record from 1975 to 2009
G8 conclusions on climate change, 1975-2009
Peter Hajnal: Civil Society at the 2009 G8 Summit in L'Aquila
Peter Hajnal: Civil Society and the 2008 G8 Hokkaido Summit
Ulrich Schneckener: The Opportunities and Limits of Global Governance by Clubs
Jennifer Gronau and Steffen Schneider: Metaphorical Concepts in the Construction of International Legitimacy
Congratulations to the 2009 Catherwood Scholars
Conclusions on food and agriculture in G8 documents
Lee Dong-hwi: The G20 in Korean Diplomacy
John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert on "Bringing Health into the Climate Change Regime: The Opportunity for Copenhagen 2009 and Muskoka 2010"
Town of Huntsville launches G8 website
John Kirton, Fen Hampson and Shauna Sylvester on Canada and the G8/G20 (The Agenda on October 13)
Domenico Lombardi on the G8 and the G20 on TVO's The Agenda
John Kirton and Madeline Boyce: Making History: G20 Governance from Pittsburgh to Muskoka
The G20 Pittsburgh Summit 2009, edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch (full pdf now available!)
G20 documents and articles now available in Chinese
John Kirton: "Coexistence, Cooperation, Competition: G Summits," Aspenia
Recent writings on the G8 by Dries Lesage et al., Skander Nasra et al., and Katharina Gnath and Niklaus Reimers
Judith Huigens and Arne Niemann: The EU within the G8, EU Diplomacy Papers 5/2009
John Kirton — The Performance of the G8 at L’Aquila 2009: A Summit of Solid Success, July 13, 2009
Julie Feinberg and John Kirton: Promoting Democracy in Iran, July 9, 2009
George von Furstenberg on the G8 leaders declaration on the economy, July 9, 2009
Madeline Boyce: G8 Climate Governance, 1975-2008
G5 compliance report with 2008 statement
George von Furstenberg: Economic Issues Fit for the L'Aquila G8 Summit, July 8, 2009
John Kirton: Prospects for the G8 L'Aquila Summit, July 6//09
Canada's Harper: "La contribution du sommet du G8 en 2010" "L'Apporto del Vertice 2010" "Beitrag zum G8-Gipfel 2010" Also in Russian and Chinese and Spanish and Japanese
Berlusconi's From La Maddalena to L'Aquila in Russian and Chinese (from "G8 2009")
John Kirton: Prospects for the 2010 Muskoka Summit