This book offers the most thorough detailed inside story of the preparation negotiation performance and achievements of G20 gatherings from their start at the finance level in 1999 through their rise to become leader-level summits in response to the great global financial crisis in 2008. Follow the moves of Americaâs George Bush and Barack Obama Britainâs Gordon Brown and David Cameron Canadaâs Stephen Harper Germanyâs Angela Merkel and other key leaders as they struggle to contain the worst global recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This book provides a full chapter-long account of each of the first four G20 summits from Washington to Toronto with summaries of the ensuing summits. It uses international relations theory to build and apply a model of systemic hub governance to back its central claim to show convincingly that G20 performance has grown to successfully govern an increasingly interconnected complex crisis-ridden globalized twenty-first century world. Language: English