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Compliance with G8 Commitments:
Ascertaining the Degree of Compliance with Summit Debt and International Trade Commitments for Canada and the United States, 1996-1999

Diana Juricevic, G8 Research Group, 2000

Paper prepared for POL 495Y
Professor John J. Kirton, University of Toronto

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify the patterns and processes and explain the causes of summit compliance. The impending analysis will examine the extent to which Canada and the United States have substantively implemented their most significant G7/8 debt relief and international trade commitments from 1996 to 1999. The argument advanced in this paper is that no single theory on international cooperation adequately accounts for either summit compliance in general or cross-country variations in particular. This paper will build models for identifying commitments, evaluating and ranking commitments according to their level of ambition and significance, and develop a framework for assessing compliance.

Contents

• Introduction
• Methodology
• Empirical Analysis
• 1996 Lyon Summit
• 1997 Denver Summit
• 1998 Birmingham Summit
• 1999 Cologne Summit
• Theoretical Assessment
• Appendix
• Summary: Identifying Commitments: International Trade and Debt Relief
• Lyon 1996
• Denver 1997
• Birmingham 1998
• Koln 1999
• Coding Manual
• Table 1. Levels of Ambition
• Table 1.1: Lyon 1996
• Table 1.2: Denver 1997
• Table 1.3: Birmingham 1998
• Table 1.4: Cologne 1999
• Table 2. Levels of Significance
• Table 2.1: Lyon 1996
• Table 2.2: Denver 1997
• Table 2.3: Birmingham 1998
• Table 2.4: Cologne 1999
• Table 3. Ambition and Significance Summary Comparisons
• Table 3.1: Ambition and Significance Scores by Summit
• Table 3.2: Ambition and Significance Scores by Issue
• Table 4. Cross-Country and Cross-Issue Comparisons
• Table 4.1: US and Canadian Compliance with Debt commitments
• Table 4.2: US and Canadian Compliance with Trade commitments
• Table 4.3: Summary Cross-Country Comparison of Debt
• Table 4.4: Summary Cross-Country Comparison of Trade
• Table 4.5: Summary Comparison of Compliance Scores in Percentage Terms
• References

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