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2009. vol. 4. No. 3
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Topic of the Issue
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4–11
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Larionova Marina - Doctor of Political Science, Director of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Rakhmangulov Mark - Researcher of the Informational – Analytical G8 Research Centre of the of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute G8 Hokkaido-Toyako Final Compliance Report prepared by the G8 Research Group of the University of Toronto and the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organizations Research Institute was released in June 2009. The reports issued twice a year indicate the level of G8 countries and the European Union’s compliance with the commitments made within the framework of G8 annual summits. The article overviews G8 members’ compliance with the 2008 G8 Hokkaido-Toyako summit commitments. Giving a special emphasis to the Russia’s compliance with commitments of the last year, the article anticipates detailed report presented hereinafter in the section of Analytical Papers of the issue. |
Analytical Papers
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12–35
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IORI-HSE G8 Research Group (eds. M.Larionova, Y.Zaytsev) Larionova Marina- Doctor of Political Science, Director of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Zaitsev Yurij– Researcher of the Informational – Analytical G8 Research Centre of the of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Rakhmangulov Mark - Researcher of the Informational – Analytical G8 Research Centre of the of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Shadrikova Arina - Junior Researcher of the OECD-HSE Partnership Centre of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Lanshina Tatyana - Student of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the State University – Higher School of Economics Ovchinnikova Yuliya - Student of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the State University – Higher School of Economics Churkin Igor - Student of the Financial Academy of the Government of the Russian Federation Churkina Natalya - Junior Researcher of the Informational – Analytical G8 Research Centre of the of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute 2008 G8 compliance report is a comprehensive analysis of the G8 countries’, including individual efforts of Russia to comply with commitments made at Toyako (Japan). The report presents key findings from the analysis that could be a helpful to assess effectiveness of the G8 and provides information on actions undertaken by the G8 member states and the G8 summit outcomes in general. Final compliance report covers the period from August 2008 till June 2009. It contains analysis of compliance by the G8 countries with 20 commitments from such priority spheres as economic and financial stability, Africa development, climate change, energy efficiency, non-proliferation, counter-terrorism and regional security. |
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36–61
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IORI-HSE G8 Research Group (eds. M.Larionova, Y.Zaytsev) Larionova Marina- Doctor of Political Science, Director of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute Arkhipova Polina –Student of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the State University – Higher School of Economics Vekshina Anna –Student of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the State University – Higher School of Economics Nikolaeva Ekaterina – Student of the Faculty of Sociology of the State University – Higher School of Economics Frolova Dariya - Student of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the State University – Higher School of Economics he report continues analysis of compliance by the G8 countries with commitments made in Toyako in 2008. It presents compliance of Italy, which holds the current presidency in the G8. |
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62–78
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Kirton John James- PhD in International Studies, Professor, Director of the G8 Research Centre of the University of Toronto (Canada) This paper explores the G8’s core character, mission, capabilities and governance, and assesses on this basis how changes in outreach, in-reach and down-reach have enhanced performance in the past and could in the years ahead. It finds that since its 1975 start, the G8 as a modern democratic concert has increasingly met its central goal of producing a global democratic revolution and providing domestic political management, deliberation, direction-setting, decision making, delivery and the development of a new generation of global governance for itself and the world. During this time the G8 has maintained its globally predominant capabilities, largely because it has broadened enormously in outreach, embracing Japan, Italy, Canada, an EU expanding to 27 states and Russia as full members, and a wide array of multilateral organizations and rising or regional powers as participants in its annual summit and institutions below. It has thickened its own structure through in-reach by developing a dozen ministerial and over 80 official-level institutions across many policy fields, if not yet ministerial forums for health, agriculture, industry, investment and defence. |
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79–97
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Kirton John James - PhD in International Studies, Professor, Director of the G8 Research Centre of the University of Toronto (Canada) Panova Victoriya - PhD in History, Senior Lecture at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the MFA of Russia, Regional Director for Russia of the G8 Research Centre of the University of Toronto (Canada) The paper looks into the latest period of the G8 and Heiligendamm Dialogue Process (G8 G5) on energy and climate change activities to analyze risks for further sustainable world energy and economic development, and develop proposals to improve the G8’s energy-climate performance. |
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98–108
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Nurshaikhova Alma -PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty) Key words: Group of Eight, G8, development, Official Development Aid, Paris Declaration, managing aid, Central Asia The article analyses the G8 commitments in the field of development assistance and Africa made at G8 Summits in Gleneagles, Heiligendamm and Hokkaido/Toyako. It explores the evolution of the commitments at global level, points out to the shift of the focus of aid debates from “quantity” to “quality”, and examines the role of G8 summits in deepening the agenda on aid reform. The article assesses the progress of G8 countries in compliance with their commitments on aid at the global level and offers explanations of a slow progress at a national level on the basis of Central Asian countries’ experience. Based on the results of a series of semi-structured interviews implemented for the region, the author provides conclusions on the state and existing problems of the adherence to three out of five basic aid effectiveness principles as outlined in Paris Declaration – ownership, alignment and mutual accountability. |
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109–123
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Kirton John James - PhD in International Studies, Professor, Director of the G8 Research Centre of the University of Toronto (Canada) The paper turns to the in-depth analysis of the G8’s contribution in overcoming numerous turned-global financial crises occurred once established in 1975 as well as to the evolution of the role of EU in supporting measures as a global player. |
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124–168
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Zaitsev Yurij- Researcher of the Informational – Analytical G8 Research Centre of the of the State University – Higher School of Economics International Organisations Research Institute The article analyses G8 countries’ compliance with development commitments in the period of 2002 – 2008 and sums up the results of compliance with G8 Toyako summit priority development commitments, demonstrated by Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Great Britain, USA and EU. The results of compliance with the G8 Toyako summit commitments on development for Russia and Italy are available hereinafter in the section of Analytical Papers of the issue. |
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