Radoslava N Stefanova - The G8, the United Nations, and Conflict Prevention

This innovative and forward looking work examines the Genoa summit agenda with a view to strengthening international conflict prevention institutions and identifying and analyzing economic early warning indicators. It devotes particular attention to the Italian contribution and approach and the ways in which it can be effectively implemented following the summit. The first book to compare the role of the G8 and the United Nations in conflict prevention and human security, The G8, the United Nations, and Conflict Prevention will be essential reading for academics, government officials and members of the business and media communities.

Series Editor: John J. Kirton

The G8 and Global Governance Series explores the issues, the institutions, and the strategies of the participants in the G8 network of global governance, and other actors, processes, and challenges that shape global order in the twenty-first century. Many aspects of globalisation, once considered domestic, are now moving into the international arena generating a need for broader and deeper international co-operation and demanding new centres of leadership to revitalise, reform, reinforce, and even replace the galaxy of multilateral institutions created in 1945. In response, the G8, composed of the world's major market democracies, including Russia and the European Union, is emerging as an effective source of global governance. The G8 and Global Governance Series focusses on the new issues at the centre of global governance, covering topics such as finance, investment, and trade, as well as transnational threats to human security and traditional and emerging political and security challenges. The series examines the often invisible network of G8, G7, and other institutions as they operate inside and outside established international systems to generate desired outcomes and create a new order. It analyses how individual G8 members and other international actors, including multinational firms, civil society organisations, and other international institutions, devise and implement strategies to secure their preferred global order.

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Edited by
John J. Kirton
University of Toronto
Radoslava N. Stefanova
Istituto Affari Internazionali and European University Institute

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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The G8, the United Nations, and conflict prevention. - (The G8 and global governance series)
1. Group of Eight (Organization) 2. United Nations 3. Pacific settlement of international disputes 4. Conflict management 5. Security, International
I. Kirton, John J. II. Stefanova, Radoslava
327.1'7

Library of Congress Control Number: 2003112236

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0879-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-138-25660-6 (pbk)

Sir Nicholas Bayne, KCMG, is a Fellow at the International Trade Policy Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science. As a British diplomat, he was High Commissioner to Canada from 1992 to 1996, Economic Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1988 to 1992, and Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1985 to 1988. He has published numerous articles and books, including Hanging In There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal (Ashgate, 2000); he is also co-author, with Robert Putnam, of Hanging Together: Co-operation and Conflict in the Seven Power Summits (Harvard University Press, 1987) and, with Stephen Woolcock, of The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations (Ashgate, 2003). Sir Nicholas also contributed to, among others, New Directions in Global Economic Governance: Managing Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Ashgate, 2001) and New Directions in Global Political Governance: The G8 and International Order in the Twenty-First Century (Ashgate, 2002).

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is Director General for International Relations at the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance. He represents Italy in various international forums, in particular as G7 Finance Deputy. Before joining the ministry, he worked in the Bank of Italy's Research Department, and as head of the Policy Division and Deputy Director General for Research of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Dr. Bini Smaghi a graduate of the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Chicago.

Robert Fowler is Canada's Ambassador to Italy, where he is also accredited as High Commissioner to Malta, Ambassador to Albania and San Marino, and Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations organisations based in Rome. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Italy, he was Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York from 1995 to 2000, including during Canada's 1999/2000 term as a member of the United Nations Security Council. In July 2001, Mr. Fowler was asked by the Prime Minister to plan and organise the 2002 G8 Summit in Kananaskis, and was appointed Jean Chretien's G8 Personal Representative (Sherpa) and his Personal Representative for Africa. In September 2002, Mr. Fowler returned to Rome to resume his duties as Ambassador to Italy, while remaining Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for Africa. Mr. Fowler has held various senior positions in Ottawa, including Executive Assistant to the Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs; Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Foreign and Defence Policy) at the Privy Council Office advising prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney on foreign, defence, and development policy issues; Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy at the Department of National Defence; and Deputy Minister of National Defence.