This paper identifies specific membership criteria and shows the effect they will have on the G20's composition. Setting clear criteria will be controversial — in part because it will require the replacement of several current members. Such change may be painful, but with another recession...

This contribution critically analyses the recent developments in the relationship between the G20 and the OECD. The OECD has been one of the key economic institutions ever since its establishment. Recently however, its limited membership and the engagement of other international organizations in...

This chapter contributes to this scant literature, focusing on analysing the EU's input and impact on past summits. This analysis emphasizes institutional mechanisms that allow the EU to increase its influence within the G20 process through greater coordination (of European G20 members) and...

The massive reconfiguration of the world economy over the next decade will lead to a New Economic Order by 2020. China will displace the U.S. as the world's leading economy and India will overtake Japan. This will shift the balance of the G20 from the leading industrialized economies of the G7...

This working paper analyses the relationship between the European Union and the G20, with an emphasis on how the two bodies have impacted and shaped each other's agendas. Both entities mark, in very different ways, a changing world order in which states are cooperating ever more closely in order...