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ABSTRACT
This article analyses how global governance networks contest, influence, and shape the Group of Twenty (G20) forum through the latter’s growing inclusivity practices, with important effects on global economic governance norms and practices. These transnational networks include public, intergovernmental, private, and civil society actors that interact through professional ‘ecologies.’ Some network actors participate in the G20’s official engagement forums, others contribute to G20 policy formulation and implementation in other ways, including member-state representatives and officials from international institutions. The research includes evidence from participant observation, semi-structured interviews, public statements, and document analysis, deploying analytical tools from social constructivism, discourse analysis, and the sociology of professions. It examines G20 policy-shaping capacities of global governance networks, especially on macroprudential financial regulation, sustainable economic growth, and sustainable development. The research finds that governance networks have contributed significantly to decentralising global governance authority by diversifying its actors since the 2008 financial crisis.
Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to the Soka University Peace Research Institute for funding some of the research for this article. I am also very grateful to Think 20 (T20) Co-Chair Margo Thomas, for inviting me to participate with the Gender Economic Equity Task Force at the 2018 Buenos Aires T20 Summit. I would like to thank Steve Price-Thomas of Oxfam, for kindly introducing me to several participants and organizers at the 2019 Civil 20 (C20) Summit in Tokyo. I am thankful to Chatham House for inviting me to speak at its 2018 International Policy Forum, ‘No Going Back: Making Gender Equality Happen’, and at a roundtable hosted by the British Embassy in Tokyo for the launch of the Japan host year for Women 20 (W20). I am particularly grateful to Chatham House’s Gender and Growth Initiative Manager Stéphane Dubois and Associate Professor Susan Harris Rimmer (Griffith University) for involving me in these activities. My participation in the events mentioned above provided invaluable research for this study. I thank everyone who agreed to be interviewed, or simply discussed issues related to the Group of Twenty’s engagement and policy processes.
Disclosure statement
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Notes on contributor
Jonathan Luckhurst (PhD) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Peace Studies, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. His publications related to this article topic include the books, G20 Since the Global Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and The Shifting Global Economic Architecture: Decentralizing Authority in Contemporary Global Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).