Was the G8 Deauville Summit a success or a failure?
The 2011 G8 Deauville Summit: New World, New Ideas
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2011
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- Table of contents
- Introduction and leaders' perspectives
- Development and the Millennium Development Goals
- Dealing with natural disasters
- Health
- Agriculture and food
- Climate change and sustainable development
- Energy security
- Africa's growth opportunities
- Trade and investment
- Growth through innovation
- Peace and security
- Accountability, innovation and effectiveness
- Leader profiles
Table of contents [PDF]
Introduction and leaders' perspectives [PDF]
- The priorities of the French presidency of the G8
Le Sommet du G8 à Deauville de la France: nouveau monde, nouvelles idées - G8/G20 Presidency of the Republic of France
- A ‘new’ G8: building on Muskoka’s foundations/
Un « nouveau » G8 - The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
- Governing globalisation: challenges for the G8
- Angela Merkel, chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
- The G20 Seoul Summit and beyond
- Lee Myung-bak, president, Republic of Korea
- Working together to secure growth for all
- Felipe Calderón, president, Mexico
- How bigger challenges can create bold advances
- John Kirton, director, G8 Research Group
- Deauville welcomes the G8/Deauville accueille le G8
- Philippe Augier, mayor of Deauville
Development and the Millennium Development Goals [PDF]
- The role of gender equality in global development
- Helen Clark, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
- Placing reproductive health centre stage
- Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- The changing face of African agriculture
- Lars H Thunell, executive vice-president and CEO, IFC
- The role of the Asian Development Bank
- Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank
- The need for a balanced economic governance system
- Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank
- Taking a different approach to finance
- Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president, Islamic Development Bank Group
- Towards a renewed G8/Vers un G8 renouvelé
- Abdou Diouf, secretary general, La Francophonie
- Business with empathy for a better tomorrow
- Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre
Dealing with natural disasters [PDF]
- Responding to humanitarian crises
- Valerie Amos, United Nations under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator
- Reforming the global response to humanitarian crises
- Sir John Holmes, former under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, United Nations
- Simultaneous disasters: learning lessons from Japan’s devastation
- Gordon McBean, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Health [PDF]
- To improve maternal and child health, focus on the neediest
- Anthony Lake, executive director, UNICEF
- Non-communicable diseases: a challenge for the global community
- Mirta Roses Periago, director, Pan American Health Organization
- Continuing support to tackle infectious diseases head on
- Michel D Kazatchkine, executive director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Time to up the ante in this war against poverty
- Robert Ridley, director, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization
- Revolutionising HIV prevention: reaping the dividend
- Michel Sidibé, executive director, UNAIDS
- A tipping point in the fight against malaria
- Mark Green, special advisor, Malaria No More
- Keeping it in the community: well-being in the developing world
- Jenilee Guebert, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs
- A chance for business to become more proactive
- Jeffrey Sturchio, president& CEO, Global Health Council
Agriculture and food [PDF]
- Multi-stranded approach to ensuring food security
- David Nabarro, special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for food security and nutrition, and coordinator of the United Nations High Level Task Force
- Securing food and agriculture for all
- Jacques Diouf, director general, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- The importance of vibrant rural economies
- Kanayo Nwanze, president, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Ensuring food for all requires a risk-reduction revolution
- Josette Sheeran, executive director, World Food Programme
- Scaling up our response to the global food crises
- Laurette Dubé and Janet Beauvais, McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence
- Raising awareness of water and sanitation
- Loïc Fauchon, World Water Council
Climate change and sustainable development [PDF]
- The heat is on: challenges ahead for Durban forum
- Jacob Zuma, president, Republic of South Africa
- Key challenges in environment and climate change
- Achim Steiner, United Nations under-secretary general, executive director, United Nations Environment Programme
- A winning partnership: business with backing from government
- Björn Stigson, president, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Energy security [PDF]
- How smart grids are transforming the electricity landscape
- Ella Kokotsis, G8 and G20 Research Groups
- Energy Security
- Tough measures to ward off future fuel shocks
- Nobuo Tanaka, executive director, International Energy Agency
- Beyond the nuclear option
- Victoria Panova, Department of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy, MGIMO University
- Regulation regime undergoes a revolution
- Lord Mogg, chair, International Confederation of Energy Regulators; chair, Ofgem; chair, Board of Regulators, Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
Africa's growth opportunitiies [PDF]
- Africa’s Growth Opportunities
- Strengthening good governance in Africa
- John Kufuor, former president, Ghana
- New opportunities for development: Africa is capable of catching up
- Diéry Seck, director, Centre for Research on Political Economy, Senegal
Trade and investment [PDF]
- Investing in development: ensuring a continued flow
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Growth through innovation [PDF]
- Green Growth Strategy: a framework for action
- Angel Gurría, secretary-general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- A role for both public and private sectors
- Robert Fauver, former US under secretary of state for economic affairs and former G7 sherpa
- Internet: the way to a bright global future
- Hamadoun Touré, secretary general, International Telecommunication Union
- Rescuing the global cyber commons: an urgent agenda for the G8
- Ronald J Deibert, director, the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs
Peace and security [PDF]
- Cyber jaw, not war
- Joseph Nye, Harvard University, author of The Future of Power
- What next after Libya?
- Geoff Hoon, former minister of defence, United Kingdom
- Good governance after the Arab Spring
- Christopher Sands, senior fellow, Hudson Institute
- Global security and the Korean peninsula Lee Dong-hwi, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
- Tackling cocaine and corruption Amandine Scherrer, associate researcher, Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology, University of Montreal
Accountability, innovation and effectiveness [PDF]
- Keeping the G8 relevant: from Muskoka to Deauville
- Leonard Edwards, former G8 sherpa to the Canadian prime minister
- Torchlight on Africa: letting us see the invisible
- Njongonkulu Ndungane, former Archbishop of Cape Town, president and founder, African Monitor
- Keeping promises: how big a difference did last year’s summit make?
- Ella Kokotsis, G8 Research Group, and Netila Demneri, G8 and G20 Research Groups
- Faith forum calls for inspired leadership
- The Reverend Doctor Karen Hamilton, chair, 2010 InterFaith Partnership, general secretary, Canadian Council of Churches
Leader profiles [PDF]
Leader profiles
Sponsors index
According to John Kirton, director of the G8 Research Group, the summit promised to be an exceptionally significant event. Seldom before had a single G8 summit confronted such a broad range of tightly interconnected burning crises -- waging war to liberate Libya, bringing democracy to North Africa and the Middle East, coping with Japan’s natural and nuclear disasters, and preventing new fiscal and financial crises from Europe or the United States from snuffing out the global economic recovery gathering force. The Deauville Summit also had to deal with the formidable challenges on its built-in agenda, notably terrorism, nuclear proliferation, piracy, drugs, transnational crime, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a new partnership with Africa for development, health, education and good governance. The summit finally had to take up the new initiatives added by its French chair -- the opportunities offered by the new cyber technologies and innovation for green growth.
Kirton’s full assessment is available at
