Global Leadership in Transition

<DIV><P><I>Global Leadership in Transition</I> calls for innovations that would institutionalize or consolidate the G20 helping to make it the global economy's steering committee. The emergence of the G20 as the world's premier forum for international economic cooperation presents an opportunity to improve economic summitry and make global leadership more responsive and effective a major improvement over the G8 era.</P><P>Key contributors to this volume were well ahead of their time in advocating summit meetings of G20 leaders. In this book they now offer a rich smorgasbord of creative ideas for transforming the G20 from a crisis-management committee to a steering group for the international system that deserves the attention of those who wish to shape the future of global governance.—C. Randall Henning American University and the Peterson Institute</P><P>Contributors: Alan Beattie <I>Financial Times</I>; Thomas Bernes Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); Sergio Bitar former Chilean minister of public works; Paul Blustein Brookings Institution and CIGI; Barry Carin CIGI and University of Victoria; Andrew F. Cooper CIGI and University of Waterloo; Kemal Dervis Brookings; Paul Heinbecker CIGI and Laurier University Centre for Global Relations; Oh-Seok Hyun Korea Development Institute (KDI); Jomo Kwame Sundaram United Nations; Homi Kharas Brookings; Hyeon Wook Kim KDI; Sungmin Kim Bank of Korea; John Kirton University of Toronto; Johannes Linn Brookings and Emerging Markets Forum; Pedro Malan Itau Unibanco; Thomas Mann Brookings; Paul Martin former prime minister of Canada; Simon Maxwell Overseas Development Institute and Climate and Development Knowledge Network; Jacques Mistral Institut Français des Relations Internationales; Victor Murinde University of Birmingham (UK); Pier Carlo Padoan OECD Paris; Yung Chul Park Korea University; Stewart Patrick Council on Foreign Relations; Il SaKong Presidential Committee for</P>