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Middle Power Leadership And The Evolution Of The G20, Andrew Cooper, Jongryn Mo

Global Summitry Journal

Global power is becoming more diffuse, smarter, and more asymmetric. In developing this extended argument, we make four points. First, the G20 Seoul Summit in November 2010 showed that the G20 is becoming increasingly embedded as the hub of global economic governance. Second, a strong G20 has positive attributes for global governance. Third, a main driving force for the ascent of the G20 has been and will continue to be middle power leadership. This article, therefore, will concentrate in the following on the role of Canada, Australia and South Korea but, there is some considerable potential for this role to ...

Australia's Views On Global Summitry: The Case Of The G20, Melissa Conley Tyler

Global Summitry Journal

When Australia announced in 2010 that it would become a member of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), I sought out one’s of Australia’s leading experts on Australia-Europe relations, Professor Philomena Murray. I asked her why she thought Australia was pushing to become a member of ASEM after previous unsuccessful attempts. Her view: Australia is “a joiner.”

This appears to be a fair statement of Australia’s current approach to global summitry, a pattern begun during former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s tenure and still very much pursued under the leadership of the current Prime Minister Julia Gillard. To ...

The Comparison And Contrast Of South Africa’S Apartheid With Australia’S Stolen Generations., Alexis Lynn Powers

Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Past Jubilee Downs, Rose Van Son

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

poem: Past Jubilee Downs. Travel in the Norrth West of Western Australia