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The G8 Camp David Summit 2012:
The Road to Recovery
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G8 Research Group, 2012
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Cover and Contents [PDF]
Introduction and leaders' perspectives [PDF]
- A time of transformation
- Barack Obama, president, United States of America
- United for freedom and enterprise
- David Cameron, prime minister, United Kingdom
- Cooperation, responsibility, solidarity
- Angela Merkel, chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
- G8: acting together for global prosperity and security [updated from printed edition]
- Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
- Prospects for the Camp David Summit
- John Kirton, director, G8 Research Group
- America's G8 summitry: back to the future
- Robert Fauver, former G7/G8 sherpa, United States
- Illinois – the place to do business
- Pat Quinn, governor, State of Illinois
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The G8's Partners – African Opportunity [PDF]
- Progress in a democratic Liberia
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president, Liberia
- Strengthening political governance for security and stability in Africa
- Dr Jean Ping, chairperson, African Union Commission
- Working together to assist Africa's development efforts
- Donald Kaberuka, president, African Development Bank Grou
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Innovation for Economic Growth, Employment and Social Security [PDF]
- Fostering growth through innovation
- Angel Gurría, secretary-general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- The G8's strategy for global economic growth
- Robert Fauver, former G7/G8 sherpa, United States
- America forges ahead in the new global economy
- David Hale, chair, David Hale Global Economics and co-editor of What's Next? Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
- Generating green growth and jobs in G8 countries
- Steve Charnovitz, George Washington University Law School
- The contribution of the private sector to education
- Harry Anthony Patrinos, lead education economist, World Bank
- Innovation and productivity in an age of austerity: a role for ICTs
- Start-ups: more than just a sideshow
- Jonathan Ortmans, chair, Global Entrepreneurship Congress; president, Global Entrepreneurship Week; senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation
- Unlocking the potential for innovation offered by ICTs
- Jeffrey A Hart, Indiana University, United States
- Towards stewardship in cyberspace
- Ron Deibert, director, Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
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Development [PDF]
- Reaching the Millennium Development Goals with energy
- Timothy E Wirth, president, United Nations Foundation; member, United Nations secretary-general's High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All
- Harnessing investment for sustainable development
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general, UN Conference on Trade and Development
- African infrastructure: foundation for a continent's growth
- Lars H Thunell, executive vice president and CEO, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
- The role of Asian Development Bank in shaping the continent's future
- Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asia Development Bank
- Financing democratic change in North Africa
- Thomas Mirow, president, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- The contribution of social business
- Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre
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Food, Nutrition and Agriculture [PDF]
- Ensuring the world is fed
- José Graziano da Silva, director general,
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
- Why the farmer should be put first
- Kanayo F Nwanze, president, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Unlocking the power of partnerships for the world's poor and hungry
- Ertharin Cousin, executive director, World Food Programme
- Continuing the progress in global food production
- Donald GM Coxe, chair, Coxe Advisor
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- Shared values, shared responsibility: G8 and Africa's response to AIDS
- Michel Sidibé, executive director, UNAIDS
- Investing in nutrition security is key to sustainable development
- Anthony Lake, executive director, UNICEF
- The ‘O Generation': tackling the childhood obesity epidemic
- Mirta Roses-Periago, director, Pan American Health Organization
- Strengthening maternal, newborn and child health: the next steps
- Julio Frenk, chair, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health; dean, Harvard School of Public Health
- More than money: the business contribution to global health
- Jeffrey L Sturchio, senior partner, Rabin Martin
- Bolstering brain health makes perfect sense
- Vladimir Hachinski, president, World Federation of Neurology; chair, Working Group, World Brain Alliance
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Energy Security and Climate Change Control [PDF]
- Rio offers the chance to look at things differently
- Dilma Rousseff, president, Brazil
- Enhancing energy security: lessons from Germany and Japan
- Miranda Schreurs, member, German Environment Advisory Council (SRU)
- Why nuclear energy still has a crucial role to play
- Victoria V Panova, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University
- North America as a global oil and gas power
- Robert Johnston and Nitzan Goldberger, Eurasia Group
- Energy security is of crucial importance for the G8
- Maria van der Hoeven, executive director,
International Energy Agency
- The G8 and great hopes for sustainable energy
- Dries Lesage, Ghent Institute for
International Studies, Ghent University
- A chance to open up a new front on health, food and climate protection
- Achim Steiner, United Nations under-secretary general; executive director, United Nations Environment Programm
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Peace and Security [PDF]
- Ensuring security in the Middle East, northeast Asia and worldwide
- Lee Dong-hwi, Korean National Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
- Building the new Arab world
- Hisham El Sherif, IT Ventures
- After the Arab Spring: will leaders lead leaders?
- Lindsay Lloyd, Freedom Collection, George W Bush Presidential Center, and Christopher Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
- Reaching nuclear global zero: a Japanese view on the G8's role
- Matake Kamiya, National Defence Academy of Japan
- Finding a middle way to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions
- Graham Allison, director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government
- Working to prevent nuclear proliferation in the Gulf
- David Shorr, The Stanley Foundation
- Helping Afghanistan to make the transition to peace
- Omar Samad, senior Afghanistan expert, United States Institute of Peace; former ambassador of Afghanistan to France and Canada
- G8 action against terrorism and transnational organised crime
- Amandine Scherrer, OPIAS Consultin
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Accountability, Innovation and Effectiveness [PDF]
- The Camp David Summit offers a special opportunity
- Nicholas Bayne, International Relations Department, London School of Economics
- African accountability on food and development
- Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane,
president and founder of African Monitor
- Do G8 summits make a real difference?
- Marina Larionova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Ella Kokotsis, G8 Research Group
- The open spiral: the ongoing moral commitments of faith leaders
- The Reverend Doctor Karen Hamilton, general secretary, Canadian Council of Churches, and the Reverend Bud Heckman, executive director, Religions for Peace – USA
- The G8-BRICS relationship: moving from competitive avoidance to cooperative engagement
- Andrew F Cooper, University of Waterloo/Balsillie School of International Affairs; distinguished fellow, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada
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Leader profiles [PDF]
- Leader profiles
- Sponsors index
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