Reforming from the Top : A Leaders' 20 Summit

Figures vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements xiv List of abbreviations xix Introduction: Reforming the international system from the top — a Leaders' 20 Summit 1(200) Andrew F. Cooper and John English 1 Making change happen at the global level 25(21) Barry Carin and Gordon Smith 2 Anticipating the future: A political agenda for global economic governance 46(17) Cohn I. Bradford, Jr 3 A Leaders' 20 Summit? 63(9) Angel Gurria 4 Multilateralism and the limits of global governance 72(25) Richard Higgott 5 Balancing act: Japan's strategy in global and regional financial governance 97(24) Saori N. Katada 6 The political economy of dissent: Global publics after Cancún 121(20) Daniel Drache 7 Toward multilateral reform: The G20's contribution 141(28) John J. Kirton 8 On sherpas and coolies: The L20 and non-Brahmanical futures 169(18) Yoginder K. Alagh 9 China's evolving global view 187(14) Yu Yongding 10 Brazil's multiple forms of external engagement: Foreign policy dilemmas 201(29) Ricardo U. Sennes and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa 11 South Africa: Beyond the impasse in global governance 230(30) Ian Taylor 12 The L20 and the restructuring of the international economic order: An Egyptian perspective 260(21) Abdel Monem Said Aly 13 Government networks, world order, and the L20 281(15) Anne-Marie Slaughter 14 The L20 in the twenty-first century 296(16) Ramesh Thakur and Andrew S. Thompson Index 312