Summits & Regional Governance

Despite the large volume of regional and international summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of modern-day summitry, not only in the Americas but also in other regions of the world. The contributors to this volume offers a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of contemporary regional summitry.

Auteur

Gordon Mace is Director, Inter-American Studies Centre at the Institute of Advanced International Studies, Laval University, Québec, Canada.

Jean-Philippe Thérien is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal, Canada

Diana Tussie is Director, Department of International Relations, FLACSO-Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Olivier Dabène is Director, Observatoire politique de l'Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Sciences-Po, Paris, France

Contenu

Introduction: Summitry and governance in comparative perspective Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Diana Tussie, and Olivier Dabène Part I: Summitry in context 1 Summitry, governance, and democracy Jan Aart Scholt 2 Multilayered summitry and agenda interaction in South America Olivier Dabène Part II: Case studies-Americas 3 The Summits of the Americas process: Unfulfilled expectations Gordon Mace and Jean-Philippe Thérien 4 Presidential diplomacy in UNASUR: Coming together for crisis management or marking turfs? Diana Tussie 5 Summitry in the Caribbean Community: A fundamental feature of regional governance Jessica Byron 6 The impact of summitry on the governance of Mercosur Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros, Rafael Mesquita de Souza Lima, and Maria Eduarda Ferreira Cabral 7 Presidential summitry in Central America: A predictable failure? Kevin Parthenay 8 The anti-summitry of North American governance Greg Anderson Part III: Case studies-World 9 ASEAN summits and regional governance in comparative perspective Richard Stubbs 10 Assessing the role of G7/8/20 meetings in global governance: Processes, outcomes, and counterfactuals Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol 11 BRICS and re-shaping the model of summitry: Subordinating the regional to the global Andrew F. Cooper Part IV: Practitioners' point of view 12 The Summit of the Americas process and regional governance: A reflection Marc Lortie 13 Some thoughts on summit proliferation and regional governance Carlos Portales Conclusion : Summitry and governance: an assessment Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Diana Tussie, and Olivier Dabène