Revisiting the G7 ... G20

'Under the Trump administration, the US is retreating from the global leadership role it has played since the end of the second world war. The world is bedevilled with challenges and there is a desperate need for stability and co-ordinated solutions to global problems. Where will the leadership to solve them come from? 

Some have argued that we are now in a "G zero" world in which no one is in charge. There is great uncertainty and the powerful dictate solutions to smaller players. Others say we are moving to a regional carve up - a G3 where the US. Russia and China have spheres of influence in a modern day version of the Three Emperors League. 

Some version of a new multi-polar order may yet take shape. But it also seems clear that a G minus one world is starting to fill the vacuum in some domains — with countries coming together to find solutions to global problems without the US.' p.11.

 

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imaginary - *You cast your vote and get the  global leadership we all deserve. ...	- numbers
... Discuss.	G20 G7 G-0? Goto*

My source: 

Minouche Shafik, How to live in a G minus one world, Opinion, FTWeekend. 26-27 July 2025, p.11.

https://www.ft.com/content/7b884f20-e44e-4afe-9c0c-0c602f76b3f6

Previously: 'G7'

Trade winds and time: The Clock of the South

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C/o BBC: Bolivian Congress clock changed to turn anti-clockwise

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse.

Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve to the left.

It's the latest measure taken by the government of President Evo Morales to promote the indigenous identity of the Andean country. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28040065


updated 26 August 2014
BBC Radio 4 20:00: Whatever Happened to Global Governance?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9rdr

Original image source:
http://bubblear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/clock1-1110x400.jpg

Reflection = 'navel gazing'?

Individual and Collective reflection ...

THE NEED FOR HOLISTIC BANDWIDTH

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Reflection Critique of reflective practice Risk of navel gazing
	"GLOBAL BRITAIN" 'Rules-based order' in the 21st C? Government - Governance Preoccupation with COVID-19, Brexit ... "We have not had enough bandwidth to deal with International issues to use our position on the security council and in the G7 ..." Jeremy Bowen Risk of navel gazing*

BBC Radio 4, Today, 25 October 2022 c.0816. Jeremy Bowen, International Editor.

Related:

Horta, H., Veloso, F., & Grediaga, R. (2010). Navel gazing: Academic inbreeding and scientific productivity. Management Science, 56(3), 41.

Ronald J. Pelias. (2009). Pledging Personal Allegiance to Qualitative Inquiry. International Review of Qualitative Research, 2(3), 351–356. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/irqr.2009.2.3.351

*A constant consideration here.