Mission Creep? The Nontraditional Security Agenda of the G7/8 and the Nascent Role of the G-20
Journal: Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Year: 2015

In 2008-2011, the Group of 20 swiftly eclipsed the Group of 7, created in the mid-1970s as an informal mechanism for stabilizing markets and facilitating transnational currency exchange and investment. Several observers have expressed the view that the former, broader group is also destined to appropriate the role of the Group of 8, the G7's pioneering successor in the realm of nontraditional security. This article examines the G7/8 legacy of forging quasi-permanent institutional arrangements an