EDITORS' INTRODUCTIONS
The G7 confronts a new world order as leaders return to Kananaskis
A s the G7 celebrates its 50th threatens the global economic, military and social order that has characterised much of the last half century. Current events are challenging the longstanding relationships at the heart of the group. In a world already dealing with devastating wars, pandemic recovery and broader health, ecological, climate and other challenges, the attacks by US president Donald Trump on the rules-based foundations of global stability and prosperity, from trade to national sovereignty, cast a long shadow anniversary in 2025, its members face a volatile new world that over the Kananaskis Summit. The leaders of the G7 major industrialised countries and the European Union will meet in Kananaskis in their first return to Alberta and Western Canada since the 2002 Kananaskis Summit held in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Now, as then, global stability and security are core issues for the G7, with
Rising geopolitical tension, energy insecurity and nationalist rhetoric threaten the foundations of global cooperation. Canada can lead a reimagined model of collective action
Martha Hall Findlay, director and Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
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