Introduction : analysing the rise of regular summitry / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero
New tools for international and European governance
Twentieth-century summitry and the G7 process / David Reynolds
The foundations of summitry / Nicholas Bayne
The road to rambouillet and the creation of the group of five / Elizabeth Benning
Less than a permanent secretariat, more than an ad-hoc preparatory group : a prosopography of the G7's personal representatives, 1975-1991 / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
Between political messages and public expectations : G7 summits in French and US public opinions, 1975-1985 / Noël Bonhomme
Global and western challenges
Refashioning the West to dispel its fears : the early G7 summits / Federico Romero
Creating the expectation of a collective response : the impact of summitry on transatlantic relations / N. Piers Ludlow
The rise of summitry and EEC-Japan trade relations / Hitoshi Suzuki
The road to Cancun: the life and death of a North-South summit / Guia Migani
G7s, European councils and East-West economic relations, 1975-1982 / Angela Romano
Conclusions / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero.
International summitry and global governance : the rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991. ISBN 9780415729840. Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.