Summits & Regional Governance

The Americas in Comparative Perspective

Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Therien, Diana Tussie , Olivier Dabène (Sciences Po, France)

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Routledge
12 November 2015

Regional government; Diplomacy; International institutions; Political economy

Series: Global Institutions

Despite the large number of regional and global summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of this particular type of diplomatic practice. While recognizing that the growing importance of summits is a universal phenomenon, this volume takes advantage of the richness of the Americas experiment to offer a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of contemporary summitry.

The book addresses questions such as:

How effective have summits been ? How have civil society and other non-state actors been involved in summits? How have summits impacted on the management of regional affairs?

Filling a significant void in the literature, this volume offers an original contribution helping to understand how summitry has become a central feature of world politics. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of diplomacy, international organizations, and global/regional governance.

Edited by: Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Therien, Diana Tussie, Olivier Dabène (Sciences Po, France)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138831940
ISBN 10: 1138831948
Series: Global Institutions
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 12 November 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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