As part of the preparations for the G8 Summit that France hosted in Evian in June, IDDRI organized an international conference on global governance. Participants included scientists, politicians from countries as diverse as Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Spain, the United States, the Russian Federation, India, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, as well as international institutions such as the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme...

Speakers:

  • Patrick Alley (Global Witness, United Kingdom). Charter for Natural Resources
  • Fernando Calderon (Pnud, Bolivia). Placing the social at the heart of the debate
  • Jorge Castaneda (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico). América Latina y la obernabilidad mundial
  • Mary Kaldor (London School of Economics, United Kingdom). Perspectives on global governance: why the security framework matters
  • Craig Kennedy & William Antholis (German Marshall Fund of the United States). What to do about global governance: priorities for the Evian G-8 summit
  • Stephen Krasner (Stanford University, USA). The exhaustion of sovereignty: international shaping of domestic authority structures
  • Sunita Narain (Center for Science and Environment, India): 1. All said and done, 2. Requiem for the world we know
  • Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (United Nations Organization). Some thoughts
  • Shujiro Yazawa (Hitotsubashi University, Japan). Some comments on global governance.