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G20 Since the Global Crisis
Jonathan L uckhurst
G20 Since the Global
Crisis
Jonathan Luckhurst
University of Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book sometimes feels like a solitary struggle, but there are
moments when friends and colleagues provide invaluable help. Several
people have helped me to make this book possible. It began at a pre-
arranged meeting with Brian O’Connor, former Political Science Editor
at Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Fortunately we both were attending the
International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Toronto,
in March 2014. I would like to start by thanking him for his interest in my
initial book proposal. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewer
of that proposal, who made very helpful suggestions that I have tried to
incorporate in the text.
Another important step was changing my institution soon after the
book project was accepted by Palgrave Macmillan. I am grateful to my
new employers and colleagues at the Center for North American Studies
and the Department of Pacifi c Studies at the University of Guadalajara,
especially Arturo Santa Cruz and Dagoberto Amparo Tello, who made me
feel very welcome. Everyone has been very patient as I often disappeared
in recent months to focus deeply on writing the book. Alhasan Haidar and
Sergio Casillas Vázquez, both friends and colleagues with whom I worked
formerly at Tecnológico de Monterrey, have been excellent companions in
Guadalajara. We spent many lunch hours debating issues of international
politics, often disagreeing but always enjoyable discussions. Thanks also
to David J. Sarquís of Tec de Monterrey, for his kindness over the years; a
friend and colleague with whom I have had many excellent conversations.
These discussions with colleagues certainly encouraged me to question
and reconsider some of my own ideas. It is also important to mention two
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good friends from my studies at the University of Essex, Hernán Cuevas
Valenzuela of Universidad de Chile and Hartmut Lenz of Soka University.
They have both been crucial for the development of my ideas. Aspects of
this book owe a lot to our discussions over more than a decade. In the
same sense, I thank my doctoral supervisor at Essex, David Howarth, for
being an important intellectual infl uence.
I am very grateful to the people who helped directly with the book.
Arturo Santa Cruz was very kind to volunteer to read some draft chap-
ters. His suggestions were invaluable and I appreciate the time and effort
taken to read my work. I also thank him for his advice and help in relation
to my new academic position. Thank you to Berenice Calvillo Cortés,
whose love and support helped me ‘survive’ the book-writing process. She
helped a lot with some research tasks, making a signifi cant difference to
the quality of the work. Thanks to Steve Price-Thomas of Oxfam, some-
one with signifi cant experience of the G20 and especially the Civil Society
20 (C20). He very generously read a chapter, giving very useful feed-
back and insights on the G20 outreach engagement process. My thanks to
everyone I interviewed for the book, which provided a lot of useful mate-
rial. It was very kind to give me so much of their valuable time, despite
busy schedules. The conversations were useful, as well as interesting and
enjoyable. Thank you to Hartmut Lenz, Thomas Legler of Universidad
Iberoamericana, and Ralph Carter of Texas Christian University, for giving
helpful feedback on conference papers or drafts that at least partially were
integrated in the book. I have had the pleasure to meet and get to know
some fellow G20 scholars in recent years, including Alan S. Alexandroff
and John J. Kirton, both of the University of Toronto, Andrew F. Cooper
of the University of Waterloo, and Steven Slaughter of Deakin University.
My special thanks to Susan Harris Rimmer, of Griffi th University, who
introduced me to several of these people and whom I have enjoyed get-
ting to know. I am also grateful to my research assistant at the University
of Guadalajara, Jessica Medina Hernández, who gathered a lot of data for
this project. Of course none of these people are responsible for the con-
tents of the book.
Thank you Alexandra Dauler, Editor of Politics, Political Theory, and
Public Policy at Palgrave Macmillan, New York, for your patience and
efforts to make this book a success. Also I am grateful to Elaine Fan,
Editorial Assistant at Palgrave Macmillan, who has been a great help. This
book really is about one of the most important issues of today, which is
how we respond to new circumstances in the post–global fi nancial c risis
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world. Someone commented once that I seem to be interested in the
really ‘big issues’, but international politics is also about the small stuff. If
the world economy is underperforming, it indicates effects of many bad
decisions, not simply monolithic, invisible forces. The G20 developed to
meet the challenges of these uncertain times and has been useful, although
there is room for improvement…
I dedicate this book to my parents, Brian and Shirley Luckhurst.
Jonathan Luckhurst
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
September 2015
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: G20 Since the Global Crisis 1
2 Strategic Economic Effects of the GFC 23
3 Ideational and Normative Effects of the GFC 63
4 International Focus on the G20 101
5 G20 Hub for Global Governance 141
6 G20 Signifi cance for Members and Non-members 181
7 China–US Economic Cooperation as Antidote
to Strategic Confl ict 215
8 Strategic Competition Probably Won’t Prevent
G20 Cooperation 249
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