{"id":2300,"date":"2016-06-17T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:24:22","slug":"the-g20-australian-presidency-and-summit-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/the-g20-australian-presidency-and-summit-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"The G20 Australian Presidency and Summit Planning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

National leaders regularly attend summits. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation annual APEC Economic Leaders\u2019 meeting will bring heads-of-government to Lima Peru in November 2016. The APEC leaders\u2019 summit is the most influential regional leaders summit given that membership includes the U.S., China, and Japan \u2013 three of the world\u2019s largest economies \u2013 along with Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Korea, among others.<\/p>\n

At the global-level the G20 is arguably one of the most important leaders\u2019 summits, but it is not the only one. The G7 just held a Leaders Summit in Ise \u2013 Shima Japan in May 2016, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Non-Aligned Movement also hold frequent summits.<\/p>\n

Although the decisions and actions of the host\/summit chair \u2013 taken over an extended planning period \u2013 help to determine effective and successful summit outcomes, we know very little about the role of the chair in these summits, especially in the pre-negotiation phase, before the summit has commenced. For example, how does a summit chair \u2013 normally a national government \u2013 organize internally to conduct and lead an effective leaders\u2019 summit? Once organized, how does a summit chair engage members to establish a work program to produce effective outcomes? And what can the chair do to lead a summit that accomplishes an intended result?<\/p>\n

Such questions are grounded in the study of a chair leading a prenegotiation process within an institutionalized r\u00e9gime. Australia asked such questions in 2012 \u2013 2014 during the lead-up to the 2014 Brisbane G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit and now Germany is asking these same questions, as they prepare for the G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit scheduled for Hamburg in July 2017.<\/p>\n