The G20 and International Relations Theory

Perspectives on Global Summitry

Edited by Steven Slaughter, Associate Professor in International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia

The future of the G20 is uncertain despite being developed to address the 2008 global financial crisis. This book considers the significance of the G20 by engaging various accounts of International Relations theory to examine the political drivers of this form of global governance. International Relations theory represents an array of perspectives that analyse the factors that drive the G20, how the G20 influences world politics and in what ways the G20 could or should be reformed in the future.

‘The book is most useful – and attractive – to students of IR that are interested specifically in the context and operation of the G20. But, from a teaching perspective, the book has a more general value in that it can be utilised as a tool to evaluate theories against procedural and process applications in a key case.’
——安德鲁·F·库珀European Review of International Studies

‘Steven Slaughter’s book is a most welcome addition to the G20 and global governance literature. The work contains theoretically sophisticated understanding of legitimacy as applied to the premier forum of economic collective action. Although the core audience will be students focused on key concepts and practices related to 21st century summitry, the book deserves a wider audience interested in the evolution of international politics.’
– Andrew F. Cooper, University of Waterloo, Canada