Summitry and Global Order

Today, the world's biggest challenges-from financial (in)stability to immigration, health, the environment, terrorism and food safety- are global in nature, and their solutions demand global thinking. The authors argue that modern summitry is one of the best ways to addresses such 'spillovers'. The philosophical foundations of arrangements to achieve consensus among otherwise sovereign states as they deal with joint problems is imbued with idealism, they say, and the advance of globalization has only made such collaboration a higher imperative. While the architecture of a new global order remains a question, they maintain that one thing is certain: summitry will have a continuing and crucial role to play.