After considering the background to the G20 summit meetings after the recent global economic and financial crisis, this paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in particular East Asia, has played an important role...

The G-20 has been established more than 10 years ago as a reaction to the Asian financial crisis without - at first - gaining much weight on the international scene, however, the financial crisis of 2007/08 has caused a re-vitalization on a higher level, namely as body of the "G-20 Leaders". The...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Solutions in America and Asia -- pt. 3. Solutions in Europe -- pt. 4. Impacts and responses in the BRICs -- pt. 5. Impacts and responses in developing countries -- pt. 6. Innovation in global economic governance -- pt. 7. From G8 to G20 -- pt. 8. Conclusion.