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CIGI Experts Predict Global Governance Challenges for 2012
This week, CIGI experts David Runnalls, Eric Helleiner, Gregory Chin and Mark Sedra share their thoughts on what 2012 will bring in terms of environment and energy, the global economy, global development and global security challenges.
Guest column: China should do more
"Buying bonds is fine in the short term but China must become much more engaged internationally if the crisis is to be resolved," says CIGI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin in an op-ed on China's role in stabilizing global financial markets.
Wolf at the Door: What Happened to the Predictions of Doom?
As China prepared to accede to the World Trade Organization, analysts worried about a globalization trap, including crippling competition for its industries and farmers, a loss of sovereignty and disruption to the nation’s anticipated trajectory of growth, explains Gregory Chin, chair of the China Research Group at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: Shaping the Post-Crisis Order without a Silver Bullet
During the summer of 2010, it would be understandable if interested observers of global affairs are swept up in summit fever. The twin G8/G20 summits in Canada late June and the meeting of the G20 proper which is to commence in South Korea in November 2010 have understandably turned the attention of international analysts to global summitry.
Shaping the Post-Crisis Order without a Silver Bullet
CIGI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin says the experience of previous international financial crises suggests that we should not expect too much from upcoming G20 summits -- especially in the absence of the pressure of a global financial system in freefall.
Global Finance: China Lets the Cat Out Of the Currency Bag
TORONTO (IDN) - On the eve of their meeting with the G8 in Italy, the G5 group of major emerging economies -- Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- discussed the use of their own currencies to settle trade accounts among themselves. According to Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, the suggestion to explore this possibility came from Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
NORTH-SOUTH: Rebalancing Global Governance in Afterglow of G20 London
TORONTO (IDN) - What will the G20 London Summit be remembered for? Are we at a major turning point in global politics and international governance? Did this Summit signal a new international consensus or will new and old divergences rule the day? Are we seeing a new "coming together" of North and South, or will lack of follow through from London give rise to a new Global South, led by a new bloc of rising power?
The Emerging Powers
Why is the current global economic downturn causing such widespread anxiety? We are worried because the crisis has gone global. It has spread beyond a financial crisis and is now affecting incomes and employment in households -- kitchen tables -- the world over. The other reason is that the crisis has fully revealed the limitations of the existing system of international organization, born after the Second World War.
Calling China's Bluff
Why it's far too early to fear China's burgeoning financial clout.
China and the End of the G8
It is unclear how much the leaders of the world's 20 developed and major developing countries actually wanted to accomplish when they gathered in Washington in mid-November to discuss the fast-moving global financial crisis. However one thing the summit did make clear was the reality that the economic map of the world has been reshaped