'...an important analytical contribution to the ongoing debate about the relevance of the G8. The contributors provide thoughtful and illuminating assessments of the G8’s potential for dealing with its expanded agenda - development, climate change, and pandemics. The papers should be read by both policy makers and analysts. Both will benefit from its wide ranging insights on issues that will dominate the international agenda for at least the next two decades.' John W. Sewell, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA '...captures the high expectations generated by the Gleneagles summit. It combines a high degree of technical sophistication (especially on the connections between finance and development) with an explicit sense of commitment about the pivotal role of the G8 on an increasingly expansive agenda of global governance. The high standards of a fine series are certainly met.' Andrew F. Cooper, University of Waterloo, Canada