China G20 Leadership

Kirton offers a comprehensive, systematic examination of Chinaa€?s G20 approach, diplomacy and influence since the G20a€?s start as a forum for finance ministers and central bankers in 1999. This comprehensive reference tool works its way through Chinaa€?s elevation to the leadersa€? level with summits from 2008-2014, to the prospects for its Antalya Summit in November 2014 and above all Chinaa€?s first summit as host in Hangzhou in the autumn of 2016. This book contains a full treatment of Chinaa€?s role in the summits from 2011 to 2014, and Chinaa€?s plans, role and prospects for the summits in 2015 and 2016. Analytically, it develops and tests at the level of a single member country the systemic hub model of G20 governance that was developed for and guided in Kirtona€?s 2013 book, G20 Governance for a Globalized World.

John J. Kirton is a professor of political science and the director and founder of the G8 Research Group, co-director and founder of the G20 Research Group, as well as the co-director of the BRICS Research Group and the Global Health Development Program, at the Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity College in the University of Toronto.