Summit (meeting)

Summary

A summit meeting (or just summit) is an international meeting of heads of state or government, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearranged agenda. Notable summit meetings include those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin during World War II. However, the term summit was not commonly used for such meetings until the Geneva Summit (1955).[1] During the Cold War, when American presidents joined with Soviet or Chinese counterparts for one-on-one meetings, the media labelled the event as a "summit". The post–Cold War era has produced an increase in the number of "summit" events. Nowadays, international summits are the most common expression for global governance.[2]

Notable summits edit

World War II conferences edit

Arab League summits edit

Earth Summits edit

G–summits edit

Group of Six (G6), heads of government
Group of Seven (G7), heads of government
Group of Eight (G8), heads of government
Group of Seven (G7), heads of government
Group of Twenty, heads of government

European summits edit

Inter-Korean summits edit

Millennium Development Goals edit

South American Summits edit

Summits of the Americas edit

UN International conferences on Afghanistan edit

Soviet Union–United States summits edit

Russia–United States summits edit

Miscellaneous edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Grenville, John Ashley Soames (2001). Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts. Routledge. ISBN 9780415141253. Archived from the original on 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  2. ^ "Global Governance Breakthrough: The G20 Summit and the Future Agenda". 2001-11-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-07-27.