| Until they do, a single annual get-together would avoid summitry becoming a devalued currency—something Latin Americans know much about. |
| And all this escalating summitry takes place as Latin America is more divided than ever, between its liberal democracies on the one hand and Venezuela and its allies on the other, with Brazil trying to paper over the divide. |
| By all indications, the official March employment report, due out tomorrow, will be very, very bad. G20 leaders are busying themselves with summitry today in London. |
| That G8 leaders are now making gestures of this sort betrays their knowledge that the game is up for world summitry that does not command world support. |
| It is perhaps significant that the 2000 Okinawa G8 summit was the first in the twenty-five year history of summitry that was largely dedicated to NorthSouth issues. |
| Owen was an influential diplomat who helped institutionalize global economic summitry in the 1970s and was considered an intellectual framer of the Trilateral Commission. |
