Drezburt and the G-20

No, that’s not the name of my new band — though, man, that would be a geekily awesome name for a band — but a cue for my latest bloggingheads diavlog with NSN’s Heather Hurlburt.  Topics include Iran, the G-20 summit, and multilateralism more generally:   One follow-up note — I’ve been amused to read the ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

No, that's not the name of my new band -- though, man, that would be a geekily awesome name for a band -- but a cue for my latest bloggingheads diavlog with NSN's Heather Hurlburt.  Topics include Iran, the G-20 summit, and multilateralism more generally:

No, that’s not the name of my new band — though, man, that would be a geekily awesome name for a band — but a cue for my latest bloggingheads diavlog with NSN’s Heather Hurlburt.  Topics include Iran, the G-20 summit, and multilateralism more generally:

 

One follow-up note — I’ve been amused to read the reactions to the G-20 summit, which range from (justifiably) mocking the communique to complaining that the summit failed to develop a cure for cancer to worries about a new oppressive global governance mechanism.

I believe that I might be the only blogger who thinks that the G-20 solved the Goldilocks problem of not being meaningless without being so binding that there’s no wiggle room.  The peer review mechanism is the best enforcement arrangement that’s possible given the heterogeneous cluster of countries involved, and I give the Obama administration full marks for setting its agenda on macroeconomic imbalances. 

That is all

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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