G20 Summit Places Priority on Avoiding Division

Abstract

Under the leadership of India as the G20 Presidency, the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration was adopted on the first day of the meeting. This action was an unusual turn of events, especially since the Declaration had been expected to pose challenges. Furthermore, there had been concerns that the G20 could lose its role as a forum for problem-solving after the invasion of Ukraine. In this context, there was ample room for Japan and the G7 to cooperate with the G20.

Acknowledgment

The original Japanese-language article was published in Gaiko (Diplomacy), Vol. 81 Sep./Oct. 2023.

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Kojo Yoshiko

Kojo Yoshiko is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Politics, Economics, and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University. She obtained a Ph.D. (Politics) from Princeton University, and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Tokyo. She was a professor of International Relations at the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, the University of Tokyo, and is now an Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo.

Professor Kojo’s main research interests are the effect of international economic interdependence on state policy, institutionalization in the global economy, and Japan’s foreign economic policy. She has written many books and articles such as Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy, Cornell University Press, with Gene Park, Saori N. Katada, and Giacomo Chiozza and Keizaiteki Sogoizon to Kokka [Economic Interdependence and State: The Political Economy of International Payments].