Whither G20? The future of multilateralism and global governance reforms
As the world gears up for the G20 Summit in Delhi, the gap between growing demand for global responses to many urgent crises, and the ability of existing global governance…
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The UK & EU at the G20: What role is there, post Brexit, for the UK in the European community’s engagement with India?
The upcoming G20 meeting serves to highlight the ongoing lack of clarity around the UK’s policy coordination with the European Union (EU) block. The UK’s Integrated Review, published in 2021,…
Preparing for the G20 presidency in a fraught world: Insights on South Africa’s priorities
When the first G20 Summit was held in 2008, as the global financial crisis was spreading across the world, the hope was that an informal club comprising systemically important developed…
Germany’s priorities going into the G20 Summit
Germany’s three party coalition of the SPD (the Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz), Greens and the Liberal Free Democrats has had a pretty miserable 2023. A poll in mid-August…
Erdoğan’s priorities for Turkey at the G20 Summit
In recent years, Turkey has used G20 meetings as part of its ‘the World is Bigger than Five’ campaign launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to criticise the structure of…
China’s G20 Priorities: Maintaining Status amid Economic Challenges
Since its inception in 1999, the G20 has become one of the world’s primary forums for debating economic issues: the 19 countries plus the EU account for over 80% of…
Rocks and Hard Places: A priority for the US going into the G20 Leaders’ Summit
As India prepares to welcome members of the G20 Summit to New Delhi, leaders will be confronted with a range of daunting global challenges from technology transformation to the reform…
Looking at Indonesia’s G20 Agenda
There are three broad issues that Indonesia will be pursuing at the G20 Summit this year, which primarily relate to their economic and development agenda. Indonesia’s first agenda priority…
India – Is the G20 host failing to live up domestically to its own global vision?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s projection as the Vishwaguru (global seer) finds the ideal occasion as India gets ready to host the G20 Summit. The ‘Modi moment’ envisages steering the G20…
The political economy of sanctions against Russia: Making the sanctions work as they should
Can sanctions stop the Russian Federation (RF) in its war of choice against Ukraine? The answer to this question requires an inquiry into the indirect but non-trivial link between the…
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