John Kirton
Biographic Data
| ID | 734521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kirton |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirton |
| SIGNATURE | KIRTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3354-8681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Strengthening G20 Support for the UN’s SustainableDevelopment Goal 13 on Climate Change
Climate change, biodiversity loss and human-generated pollution pose an urgent, existential threat to all living things. UnitedNations (UN) scientific reports, and several others, confirm humanity’s destructive impact on the earth’s atmosphere,land and water. They also confirm that climate change creates new problems and exacerbates existing social and economicproblems across all the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the UN’s Agenda 2030 fo…
China’s Complex Leadership in G20 and Global Governance
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation
The First Fifteen Years of the BRICS
At the first BRIC(S) summit in 2009, leaders of the major emerging market countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) from different continents committed to build a democratic and transparent economic architecture, support the efforts of the Group of 20 (G20) to reform the international financial institutions, restore growth, and deepen intra-group cooperation. Since then, views expressed in the literature on BRICS (expanded to include South Afr…
Governing Climate Change at the G20 Rome and UN Glasgow Summits and Beyond
How and why does the Group of 20 (G20) work, both alone and together with the United Nations (UN), to advance the effective global governance of climate change, especially in 2021 and beyond? G20 summit performance on climate change has increased since 2008 as measured by the six major dimensions of governance, but not by the results in net emissions reduced. G20 efforts to spur performance at subsequent UN climate summits has varied, from substa…
China’s Global Leadership Through G20 Compliance
From Silos to Synergies
How well and why have Group of 20 (G20) summits advanced Agenda 2030’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a synergistic way, with climate change and digitization at the core? An answer to this urgent, indeed existential, question comes from a systematic analysis of G20 summit governance of the SDGs, climate change and digitization to assess the ambition and appropriateness of advances within each pillar and the synergistic links among them. …
Global Governance After the Covid-19 Crisis
Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on international institutions and international relations is essential for shaping global governance for the post COVID crisis world. The authors review the actions of the key international institutions in response to the pandemic undertaken in January-March 2020 reflecting on three questions. First, were the actions undertaken by the international institutions adequate, coordinated and timely? Second, could t…
Globalization’s Implications for G20 Governance
The rapid globalization of money, goods, services, taxation, knowledge, people, political ideas, digitalization, and especially pathogens and ecological pollutants has intensified, along with rising inequality, multipolarity, protectionism, isolationism and geopolitical tensions. Together these factors present new challenges to 21st century global governance led by the systemically significant states which make up the Group of Twenty (G20). G20 g…
Regional and global impacts of the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration on noncommunicable diseases
Objective. To assess how well Caribbean regional institutions (RIs) met their commitments from the 2007 Port-of-Spain Summit (POSS) declaration on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and evaluate the POSS impact on the United Nations High-level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs in 2011 (2011 HLM), HLM NCD review in 2014 (2014 HLM), World Health Organization’s 2025 NCD targets (2025 WHO), and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon in 2015. Methods…
Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? by Daniel J. Fiorino
Causes of G20 Compliance
In recent years, multilateralism has faced significant challenges.The rise of populist sentiment in western countries, trade wars and now slowing economic growth have undermined trust in multilateral institutions including those of a plurilateral summit form.The Group of Twenty (G20) often faces criticism for its ineffective problem-solving and members' poor compliance with their summit commitments.Yet evidence from the G20 Research Group shows t…
The G20’s Future
The Group of Twenty (G20) was created at the ministerial level in response to the global financial crisis that erupted from Asia in 1997, and then at the leaders' level after the greater crisis from the United States in 2008.These crises called into question the core principles and practices of the dominant liberal order and its core international institutions, based on economic, social and political openness, developed since 1944.The G20 combine…
Canada’s G20 entrepreneurship
Canada has been the successful entrepreneurial conceiver, co-creator, and normative and policy shaper of the G20 since the start. Under Paul Martin, Canada invented the concept and mission of the G20, co-creating it as a finance ministerial forum in 1999. Under Stephen Harper, Canada supported its elevation to summit in 2008, hosted it in 2010, and led important policy outcomes. Under Justin Trudeau, Canada further fostered the G20’s institutions…
G20 Governance of Digitalization
This study systematically assesses the G20 summit’s performance on digitalization across the key dimensions and suggests what has caused its particular pattern of performance thus far [Kirton, 2013]. It argues that the G20 summit’s digitalization governance has been increasingly successful. Its digitalization agenda steadily expanded since the beginning, with a major surge in 2016–17. G20 summits first addressed digitalization in response to the …
Securing Stability and Inclusiveness
The G20 summit system has successfully controlled financial crises, restoring global financial stability after the shock from the US in 2008 and preventing the third shock from Europe in 2010 from resulting in a global contagion. After the G20 finance ministers effectively responded to the Asian-turned-global financial crisis in 1999, they failed to prevent the greater American-turned-global financial crisis in 2008, yet their leaders together re…
China’s G20 Leadership
Kirton offers a comprehensive, systematic examination of China’s G20 approach, diplomacy and influence since the G20’s start as a forum for finance ministers and central bankers in 1999. This comprehensive reference tool works its way through China’s elevation to the leaders’ level with summits from 2008-2014, to the prospects for its Antalya Summit in November 2014 and above all China’s first summit as host in Hangzhou in the autumn of 2016. Thi…
Explaining the BRICS Summit Solid, Strengthening Success
An analysis of BRICS summit performance since its start on the margins of the G8’s Hokkaido Summit in 2008 through to its gathering at the G20’s Brisbane Summit in November 2014, shows it emerging as a solid, increasingly comprehensive, co-operative success,both alone andwithin the G20, on behalf of all emerging countries. This is due primarily to the failure of the other international institutions from the 1944-45 and 1975 generations to give th…
Generating global health governance through BRICS summitry
While global plurilateral summit institutions (PSIs) of the world's most powerful countries have long generated effective global health governance, the most recent summits of the Group of Eight (G8) and the Group of 20 (G20) have largely abandoned their earlier concern with health, especially outside its specialized food and nutrition link. However, since its start in 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the annual summit of Brazil, Russia, India, Chin…
Guiding Global Order
John Kirton, Joseph Daniels and Andreas Freytag present a collection of papers which examine both the professional economic merits, and the underlying politics, of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system. Containing a treatment of China's relationship with the G7/G8 and comprehensive analysis of the new G20 forum, this volume in the "G8 and Global Governance" series also looks at the possibil…
Linking Trade, Environment and Social Cohesion
Consequences of the 2008 US Elections for America's Climate Change Policy, Canada, and the World
On 28 June 1979, at the group of seven summit, the leaders of the world's most powerful countries declared: We need to expand alternative sources of energy, especially those which help to prevent further pollution, particularly increases of carbon dioxide and sulfur oxides the They thus acknowledged the need to halt immediately, at 1979 levels, the concentration of carbon dioxide the atmosphere. In the following five years, they and their develop…
The 10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy
In many ways the scholarly study of Canadian foreign policy has become a rich, robust, and rapidly growing field. It is now well over a century old, if one dates its inauguration from the publication of Goldwin Smith's Canada and the Canadian Question in 189 1, a book that understood that Canada's relationship with the United States was properly part of, or even at the centre of, the field.1 From 1945, when many of today's scholars start their sc…
International Organizations
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Politics and Processes of Global Governance Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. xvi, 6o3pp, US$69.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-987-X), US$32.50 paper (ISBN 1-55587-963-2)THE G8, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND CONFLICT PREVENTION Edited by John J. Kirton and Radoslava N. Stefanova Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. xxvi, 334pp, US$99.95 doth (ISBN 0-7546-0879-4)The old international relations question,…
Guess Who is Coming to Kananaskis
INTRODUCTIONThe Group of Seven and Eight (G7/8) major market democracies (United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, and Russia) is coming to Kananaskis, Alberta, for its annual summit on 26-27 June 2002. The question of who will be coming with it is on everyone's mind. At the last gathering in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001, the eight leaders, together with the European Union, were joined by their personal representatives or 'she…
Global Governance After the Covid-19 Crisis
Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on international institutions and international relations is essential for shaping global governance for the post COVID crisis world. The authors review the actions of the key international institutions in response to the pandemic undertaken in January-March 2020 reflecting on three questions. First, were the actions undertaken by the international institutions adequate, coordinated and timely? Second, could t…
Generating global health governance through BRICS summitry
While global plurilateral summit institutions (PSIs) of the world's most powerful countries have long generated effective global health governance, the most recent summits of the Group of Eight (G8) and the Group of 20 (G20) have largely abandoned their earlier concern with health, especially outside its specialized food and nutrition link. However, since its start in 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the annual summit of Brazil, Russia, India, Chin…
The First Fifteen Years of the BRICS
At the first BRIC(S) summit in 2009, leaders of the major emerging market countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) from different continents committed to build a democratic and transparent economic architecture, support the efforts of the Group of 20 (G20) to reform the international financial institutions, restore growth, and deepen intra-group cooperation. Since then, views expressed in the literature on BRICS (expanded to include South Afr…
China’s Complex Leadership in G20 and Global Governance
Explaining the BRICS Summit Solid, Strengthening Success
An analysis of BRICS summit performance since its start on the margins of the G8’s Hokkaido Summit in 2008 through to its gathering at the G20’s Brisbane Summit in November 2014, shows it emerging as a solid, increasingly comprehensive, co-operative success,both alone andwithin the G20, on behalf of all emerging countries. This is due primarily to the failure of the other international institutions from the 1944-45 and 1975 generations to give th…
Canada as a Principal Power
The International Joint Commission Seventy Years On
China’s Global Leadership Through G20 Compliance
G20 Governance of Digitalization
This study systematically assesses the G20 summit’s performance on digitalization across the key dimensions and suggests what has caused its particular pattern of performance thus far [Kirton, 2013]. It argues that the G20 summit’s digitalization governance has been increasingly successful. Its digitalization agenda steadily expanded since the beginning, with a major surge in 2016–17. G20 summits first addressed digitalization in response to the …
The 10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy
In many ways the scholarly study of Canadian foreign policy has become a rich, robust, and rapidly growing field. It is now well over a century old, if one dates its inauguration from the publication of Goldwin Smith's Canada and the Canadian Question in 189 1, a book that understood that Canada's relationship with the United States was properly part of, or even at the centre of, the field.1 From 1945, when many of today's scholars start their sc…
International Organizations
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Politics and Processes of Global Governance Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. xvi, 6o3pp, US$69.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-987-X), US$32.50 paper (ISBN 1-55587-963-2)THE G8, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND CONFLICT PREVENTION Edited by John J. Kirton and Radoslava N. Stefanova Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. xxvi, 334pp, US$99.95 doth (ISBN 0-7546-0879-4)The old international relations question,…
Building a New Global Order
The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War i…
Domestic Access to Government in the Canadian Foreign Policy Process 1968-1982
whether from inexperience, lack of resources, or the peculiar character of the views they express, the overwhelming difficulty is merely to get harried ministers, officials, and members of parliament in Ottawa to listen to their case. But even for groups which have broken the attention barrier, three further and more formidable problems arise. One is to ensure that the points and types of access they are granted by the prevailing traditions and i…
The Politics of Bilateral Management
Despite numerous fluctuations in the rhetoric of Canadian-American relations over the past decade, most scholarly analysis has continued to be dominated by a concept of the relationship which highlights its special lack of, and insulation from, the conflicting interests and power politics which prevail in the world beyond North America. The most obvious aspects of this specialness are the profound disparity in size and the intense socio-economic …
Globalization’s Implications for G20 Governance
The rapid globalization of money, goods, services, taxation, knowledge, people, political ideas, digitalization, and especially pathogens and ecological pollutants has intensified, along with rising inequality, multipolarity, protectionism, isolationism and geopolitical tensions. Together these factors present new challenges to 21st century global governance led by the systemically significant states which make up the Group of Twenty (G20). G20 g…
Shaping a New International Financial System
National mythology and media coverage
Although Canada joined the United States, Britain, France, and Italy in taking up offensive combat roles in the Gulf War, it was a most reluctant warrior. Canadian mass public opinion and elite opinion (as measured by newspaper editorials) showed fragile and readily reversible support for Canadian military participation. Support depended on the presence, particularly in television network news, of a portrait of the conflict that cast it as a myth…
Forgotten Partnership
Canada as a Principal Power
Conflict over the Columbia
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation
Causes of G20 Compliance
In recent years, multilateralism has faced significant challenges.The rise of populist sentiment in western countries, trade wars and now slowing economic growth have undermined trust in multilateral institutions including those of a plurilateral summit form.The Group of Twenty (G20) often faces criticism for its ineffective problem-solving and members' poor compliance with their summit commitments.Yet evidence from the G20 Research Group shows t…
The G20’s Future
The Group of Twenty (G20) was created at the ministerial level in response to the global financial crisis that erupted from Asia in 1997, and then at the leaders' level after the greater crisis from the United States in 2008.These crises called into question the core principles and practices of the dominant liberal order and its core international institutions, based on economic, social and political openness, developed since 1944.The G20 combine…
Securing Stability and Inclusiveness
The G20 summit system has successfully controlled financial crises, restoring global financial stability after the shock from the US in 2008 and preventing the third shock from Europe in 2010 from resulting in a global contagion. After the G20 finance ministers effectively responded to the Asian-turned-global financial crisis in 1999, they failed to prevent the greater American-turned-global financial crisis in 2008, yet their leaders together re…
The North Pacific Triangle
Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Trudeau Govenment
On 29 May 1968 Prime Minister Trudeau made the dramatic declaration that his government, if elected, intended, through a full-scale review of external relations, to give Canada a new foreign policy and a new role in the world. Sceptics had grounds for doubting the seriousness of this promise and the likelihood of its fulfilment. Those concerned with the external environment might well wonder whether the complex, intractible dynamics of internatio…
Conflict over the Columbia
Canada and the United States
Essay| November 01 1980 Canada and the United States: A More Distant Relationship John Kirton John Kirton Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto John Kirton is codirector of the University of Toronto’s Centre for International Studies’ project on Canada-United States institutional relations. A specialist in Canada-United States relations and Canadian foreign policy decision-making, he has recently written “Foreign Policy …
The Politics of Bilateral Management
Despite numerous fluctuations in the rhetoric of Canadian-American relations over the past decade, most scholarly analysis has continued to be dominated by a concept of the relationship which highlights its special lack of, and insulation from, the conflicting interests and power politics which prevail in the world beyond North America. The most obvious aspects of this specialness are the profound disparity in size and the intense socio-economic …
Canadian Foreign Policy
The International Joint Commission Seventy Years On
Canada as a Principal Power
Domestic Access to Government in the Canadian Foreign Policy Process 1968-1982
whether from inexperience, lack of resources, or the peculiar character of the views they express, the overwhelming difficulty is merely to get harried ministers, officials, and members of parliament in Ottawa to listen to their case. But even for groups which have broken the attention barrier, three further and more formidable problems arise. One is to ensure that the points and types of access they are granted by the prevailing traditions and i…
Canadian Foreign Policy in the 1980’s
Research Article| May 01 1984 Canadian Foreign Policy in the 1980’s John Kirton John Kirton Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto John Kirton has taught political science since 1977 at the University of Toronto, where he is also coordinator of the undergraduate International Relations Programme, codirector of the Canada–United States project at the Centre for International Studies, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is …
Canada as a Principal Power
Forgotten Partnership
Canada, the United States, and Space
Forgotten Partnership
An Uncertain Take-Off
The first half of 1986 was an eventful time for the international space community.1 On 28 January the United States space shuttle, Challenger, exploded 73 seconds into its flight. The disaster was the first of six launch failures which temporarily deprived the United States of its ability to place medium and heavy payloads in orbit and which has delayed the operation of its projected civilian space station for at least two years.2 In dramatic con…
Canada, the United States, and Space
Canada’s New Internationalism
Essay| March 01 1988 Canada’s New Internationalism John Kirton John Kirton Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto John Kirton is coordinator of the International Relations Program and codirector of Research at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. He is coauthor of Canada as a Principal Power (Toronto: John Wiley, 1983) and coeditor of Canada and the New Internationalism (Toronto: Canadian Ins…
Canada and the New Internationalism
The Potential for Partnership
Trade, Environment & Competitiveness
National mythology and media coverage
Although Canada joined the United States, Britain, France, and Italy in taking up offensive combat roles in the Gulf War, it was a most reluctant warrior. Canadian mass public opinion and elite opinion (as measured by newspaper editorials) showed fragile and readily reversible support for Canadian military participation. Support depended on the presence, particularly in television network news, of a portrait of the conflict that cast it as a myth…
Promoting Plurilateral Partnership
Building a New Global Order
The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War i…
Canadian Corporate Strategy in a North American Region
Introduction In content and impact, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is much more than a trade agreement. The Agreement contains a set of regulating a wide range of international trade, investment, economic, and other activities among the parties, and includes innovative provisions for dispute settlement, institutions for ongoing governance, and incentives for further policy harmonization and cooperation among the three members (Ki…
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Canada-U.S. Environmental Governance in the Nafta Era
The advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on 1 January 1994, its accompanying North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), and resulting Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) brought a potentially major change in the historic pattern of Canada-U.S. environmental governance. In the first instance, NAFTA and NAAEC promised to transform a hitherto almost exclusively bilateral relationship into a new tri…
Tous pour un ou chacun pour soi
Tous pour un ou chacun pour soi: promesses et limites de la coopération régionale en matière de sécuritéMichel Fortman, Neil MacFarlane et Stéphane Roussel, sous la direction de Québec: Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 1996, 375 p. - Volume 30 Issue 4
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