Students from the Faculty of Social Sciences return from the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany with a new understanding of its impact.
About G20
Held in Hamburg, Germany, this was the 12th G20 meeting and a first for several world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Set up in the international media centre, the GLI team had firsthand experience of the intense media scrutiny of the event and the impact of the summit in the local community.
The GLI team in Hamburg consisted of George Ashley (Undergradute, East Asian Studies), Lucy Branford-White (PGT, Information School), Professor Hugo Dobson (East Asian Studies), Remi Edwards (Undergraduate, Politics), Johanna Greco (Undergraduate, Economics), Emilija Lazarevic (Undergraduate Law), Helia Nazari (Undergraduate Politics), Henry Poust (PGT, Politics), Joseph Richardson (PGT Politics) and Gregory Stiles (PGR, Politics).
Students worked as policy analysts, writing policy briefs and blogs for the Global Policy Journal, pertaining to discussions held at sessions at the summits. The following were first published by the Global Policy Journal.
Summit Blogs:
GLI Team: Hamburg and Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Cities
GLI Team: Setting the Mood Music of Global Summitry
GLI Team: The G20: A Clash Of Civilisations?
GLI Team: Panic on the Streets of Hamburg - The German Right to Protest
GLI Team: Down and Out in Paris and Hamburg: The G20 on Climate Change
GLI Team: The Illusion of Transparency at the G20
GLI Team: Hamburg G20 Summit: A Flattering Inconvenience?
GLI Team: Africa and the G20 - A Summit of Contradictions
GLI Team: New Sunshine Policy under the Nuclear Umbrella?
Policy Briefs:
Ashley: A Chinese Leadership Role in the Age of Trump
Stiles: A Trump-Putin Bromance at the G20 Will Become the New Sykes-Picot Agreement
Dobson: Asia in the G20 - From Missed to Emerging Opportunity
Branford-White: Eyes Wide Shut - The G20 and Open Data
Lazarevic: The Commitment of the G20 to International Tax Cooperation
Poust: Priority for All or Security for Some - The G20 and Global Health
Edwards: Feeding the G20’s Ego, Food Security and Negligence at the Hamburg Summit
Greco: Migration at the G20 - Thinking Ahead Without Acting in the Now
Nazari: Outsiders at the G20 Table - How Ivanka Trump and the W20 Are Shaping the Future of Women
Richardson: Trading Away Our Future - Economic Nationalism at the G20 Hamburg Summit
About the Global Leadership Initiative
The Global Leadership Initiative (GLI) offers Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught students from the Faculty of Social Sciences the opportunity to attend major international summits taking place during the academic year. Accompanied by academic staff, small groups of approximately 8 students will actively engage in these meetings, providing an opportunity for students to gain first-hand experience of international policy debates at the highest level and produce outputs visible to an international audience thereby enhancing their research skills and employability.