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This book analyses the role of institutionalised summits in international governance, adding a fresh perspective to the controversial debate over the value of institutionalised summits for international governance.It argues that the contribution of these summits to negotiating and implementing international agreements on policy change is ambivalent. Based on an innovative theoretical model he proposes that states strategically select summits with their specific institutional design for advancing their policy preferences. Developing the route to the summit and the route from the summit as precise causal mechanisms, he argues that these choices explain the ambivalence of summit involvement. With empirically rich case studies on the G7 and the European Council, the book provides a rare systematic comparison of different summits. The empirical record shows strikingly similar patterns for G7 and European Council, but it also points to variation deserving further attention in the study of summits in different institutional environments.It will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Global Governance and European Politics, and those interested in global institutions and decision-making.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Institutionalised summits in international governance: promoting and limiting change -- Adding new perspectives to the research on summits -- Institutional choice and summit involvement -- An analysis of the G7 and the European Council -- Structure of the book -- 2 Institutional selection as a nested game on policy change -- The theoretical concept of institutional selection -- Game I: negotiation and implementation in international institutions -- Game II: institutional selection -- Explaining institutional involvement -- 3 Selecting summits: a theoretical model -- The route to the summit -- The route from the summit -- Two mechanisms to explain summit involvement -- 4 The G7 at the centre of international macroeconomic management -- Macroeconomic spillovers in a post-Bretton Woods world -- The route to the G7 -- The G7 at the centre of macroeconomic management -- Conclusion -- 5 G7 diplomacy in the fight against state-sponsored terrorism -- The fight against state-sponsored terrorism in the 1980s -- The route to the G7 -- The route from the G7 -- Conclusion -- 6 The European Council negotiating the Savings Tax Directive -- Fighting harmful tax competition and the Savings Tax Directive -- The route to the European Council -- The route from the European Council -- Conclusion -- 7 European Council leadership in reforming European emissions trading -- Emissions trading in the European Union -- The route to the European Council -- The route from the European Council -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- A better understanding of summits -- New impulses for theory development -- Implications for public and policy debates -- References -- Index.

AbstractScholars have recently begun to examine how authoritarian rulers cooperate with each other in order to fend off popular challenges to their power. During theArabSpring the states of theGulfCooperationCouncil (GCC) supported fellow authoritarian regimes in some cases while backing opposition movements in others. Existing theoretical approaches fail to explain this variation. Advancing the study on authoritarian cooperation, this article develops a theoretical approach that sets out to explain how authoritarian regimes reach their decisions. Drawing on poliheuristic foreign policy analysis, it argues that perceptions of similarity serve as a filter for estimating threats to regime survival at home. If regimes perceive the situation in other countries as similar to their own, supporting other authoritarian regimes becomes the only acceptable strategy. In contrast, if perceptions of similarity are low, regimes also consider other options and evaluate their implications beyond the domestic political arena. Applying this framework to the example of theGCCstates during theArabSpring, the analysis reveals covariation between perceptions of similarity and threat amongGCCregimes, on the one hand, and their strategies, on the other.

"This book analyses the role of institutionalised summits in international governance, adding a fresh perspective to the controversial debate over the value of institutionalised summits for international governance. It argues that the contribution of these summits to negotiating and implementing international agreements on policy change is ambivalent. Based on an innovative theoretical model it proposes that states strategically select summits with their specific institutional design for advancing their policy preferences. Developing the route to the summit and the route from the summit as precise causal mechanisms, it argues that these choices explain the ambivalence of summit involvement. With empirically rich case studies on the G7 and the European Council, the book provides a rare systematic comparison of different summits. The empirical record shows strikingly similar patterns for G7 and European Council, but it also points to variation deserving further attention in the study of summits in different institutional environments. It will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Global Governance and European Politics, and those interested in global institutions and decision-making"--