Summit (meeting)

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] Summit diplomacy not only fosters interpersonal trust between leaders but also reinforces system trust in the state-as-person construct, which is identified as the implicit glue holding the international system together. ^[3]

Notable summits

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Allied World War II conferences

• U.S.–British Staff Conference (ABC–1) (January 29 – March 27, 1941)
• Atlantic Conference (August 9–12, 1941)
• Moscow Conference (September 29 – October 1, 1941)
• Arcadia Conference (December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942)
• Second Washington Conference (June 20–25, 1942)
• Second Moscow Conference (August 12–19, 1942)
• Cherchell Conference (October 21–22, 1942)
• Casablanca Conference (January 14–24, 1943)
• Bermuda Conference (April 19, 1943)
• Third Washington Conference (May 12–27, 1943)
• Quebec Conference (August 17–24, 1943)
• Third Moscow Conference (October 18 – November 1, 1943)
• Cairo Conference (November 22–26, 1943)
• Tehran Conference (November 28 – December 1, 1943)
• Second Cairo Conference (December 4–6, 1943)
• Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (May 1–16, 1944)
• United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods) (July 1–15, 1944)
• Dumbarton Oaks Conference (August 21–29, 1944)
• Second Quebec Conference (September 12–16, 1944)
• Fourth Moscow Conference (October 9, 1944)
• Malta Conference (January 30 – February 2, 1945)
• Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945)
• United Nations Conference on International Organization (April 25 – June 26, 1945)
• Potsdam Conference (July 17 – August 2, 1945)

Soviet Union–United States summits

• Geneva Summit, July 18–23, 1955
• Washington and Camp David Summit, September 15, 26–27, 1959
• Paris Summit, May 16–17, 1960
• Vienna Summit, June 3–4, 1961
• Glassboro Summit Conference, June 23 and 25, 1967
• Moscow Summit (SALT I), May 22–30, 1972
• Washington Summit, June 18–25, 1973
• Moscow Summit, June 28 – July 3, 1974
• Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, November 23–24, 1974
• Helsinki Summit, July 30 and August 2, 1975
• Vienna Summit (SALT II), June 15–18, 1979
• Geneva Summit, November 19–21, 1985
• Reykjavík Summit, October 10–12, 1986
• Washington Summit, December 7–10, 1987
• Moscow Summit, May 29 – June 1, 1988
• Governors Island Summit, December 7, 1988
• Malta Summit, December 2–3, 1989
• Washington D.C., May 30 – June 3, 1990
• Helsinki Summit, September 9, 1990
• Paris Summit, November 19, 1990
• London Summit, July 17, 1991
• Moscow Summit (START I), July 30–31, 1991
• Madrid Summit, October 29–30, 1991

Russia–United States summits

• 1993 – Moscow Summit (START II)
• 1998 – Moscow Summit
• 2001 – Slovenia Summit 2001
• 2002 – Moscow Summit (SORT)
• 2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005
• 2018 – Russia–United States summit
• 2021 – Russia–United States summit
• 2025 – Russia–United States summit

Arab League summits

1974 – Rabat summit conference

2002 – Beirut Summit

Earth Summits

• 1992 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2002 – Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa,
• 2012 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G–summits

Group of Six (G6), heads of government

• 1975 – 1st G6 summit, Château de Rambouillet

Group of Seven (G7), heads of government

• 1976 – 2nd G7 summit, San Juan
• 1977 – 3rd G7 summit, London
• 1978 – 4th G7 summit, Bonn
• 1979 – 5th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1980 – 6th G7 summit, Venice
• 1981 – 7th G7 summit, Montebello
• 1982 – 8th G7 summit, Versailles
• 1983 – 9th G7 summit, Williamsburg
• 1984 – 10th G7 summit, London
• 1985 – 11th G7 summit, Bonn
• 1986 – 12th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1987 – 13th G7 summit, Venice
• 1988 – 14th G7 summit, Toronto
• 1989 – 15th G7 summit, Grande Arche
• 1990 – 16th G7 summit, Houston
• 1991 – 17th G7 summit, London
• 1992 – 18th G7 summit, Munich
• 1993 – 19th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1994 – 20th G7 summit, Naples
• 1995 – 21st G7 summit, Halifax
• 1996 – 22nd G7 summit, Lyon

Group of Eight (G8), heads of government

• 1997 – 23rd G8 summit, Denver
• 1998 – 24th G8 summit, Birmingham
• 1999 – 25th G8 summit, Cologne
• 2000 – 26th G8 summit, Okinawa
• 2001 – 27th G8 summit, Genoa
• 2002 – 28th G8 summit, Kananaskis, Alberta
• 2003 – 29th G8 summit, Évian-les-Bains
• 2004 – 30th G8 summit, Sea Island, Georgia
• 2005 – 31st G8 summit, Gleneagles
• 2006 – 32nd G8 summit, Saint Petersburg
• 2007 – 33rd G8 summit, Heiligendamm
• 2008 – 34th G8 summit, Tōyako
• 2009 – 35th G8 summit, L'Aquila, Abruzzo
• 2010 – 36th G8 summit, Huntsville, Ontario
• 2011 – 37th G8 summit, Deauville
• 2012 – 38th G8 summit, Camp David, Maryland
• 2013 – 39th G8 summit, Lough Erne in County Fermanagh

Group of Seven (G7), heads of government

• 2014 – 40th G7 summit, Brussels
• 2015 – 41st G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
• 2016 – 42nd G7 summit, Shima, Mie Prefecture
• 2017 – 43rd G7 summit, Taormina, Sicily
• 2018 – 44th G7 summit, La Malbaie, Quebec
• 2019 – 45th G7 summit, Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
• 2021 – 47th G7 summit, Cornwall, South West England
• 2022 – 48th G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
• 2023 – 49th G7 summit, Hiroshima
• 2024 – 50th G7 summit, Fasano, Apulia
• 2025 – 51st G7 summit, Kananaskis, Alberta

Group of Twenty, heads of government

• 2008 G-20 Washington summit
• 2009 G-20 London summit
• 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit
• 2010 G-20 Toronto summit
• 2010 G-20 Seoul summit
• 2011 G-20 Cannes summit
• 2012 G-20 Los Cabos Summit
• 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit
• 2014 G-20 Brisbane summit
• 2015 G-20 Antalya summit
• 2016 G-20 Hangzhou summit
• 2017 G-20 Hamburg summit
• 2018 G-20 Buenos Aires summit
• 2019 G-20 Osaka summit
• 2020 G-20 Riyadh summit
• 2021 G-20 Rome summit
• 2022 G-20 Bali summit
• 2023 G-20 New Delhi summit
• 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit

European summits

1969 – The Hague: Foreign policy and enlargement. 1974 – Paris: Creation of the Council. 1985 – Milan: Initiate IGC leading to the Single European Act. 1991 – Maastricht: Agreement on the Maastricht Treaty. 1997 – Amsterdam: Agreement on the Amsterdam Treaty. 1998 – Brussels: Selected member states to adopt the euro.

1999 – Cologne: Declaration on military forces. 1999 – Tampere: Institutional reform 2000 – Lisbon: Lisbon Strategy 2002 – Copenhagen: Agreement for May 2004 enlargement. 2007 – Lisbon: Agreement on the Lisbon Treaty.

European Political Community summits

2022 – 1st EPC Summit, Czechia 2023 – 2nd EPC Summit, Moldova 2023 – 3rd EPC Summit, Spain

2024 – 4th EPC Summit, United Kingdom 2024 – 5th EPC Summit, Hungary 2025 – 6th EPC Summit, Albania 2025 – 7th EPC Summit, Denmark

Inter-Korean summits

2000 – 1st Korean summit 2007 – 2nd Korean summit

2018 – April 2018 inter-Korean summit 2018 – May 2018 inter-Korean summit 2018 – September 2018 inter-Korean summit

Millennium Development Goals

2000 – Millennium Summit, New York City

2005 – 2005 World Summit, New York City

South American Summits

2000 – 2000 South American Summit, Brasília 2002 – South American Summit, Guayaquil

2004 – 2004 South American Summit, Cuzco, Peru

Summits of the Americas

1994 – 1st Summit of the Americas at Miami in the United States. 1996—Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. 1998 – 2nd Summit of the Americas at Santiago in Chile. 2001 – 3rd Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City, Canada.

2004 – Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas at Monterrey in Mexico. 2005 – 4th Summit of the Americas at Mar del Plata in Argentina. 2009 – 5th Summit of the Americas at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. 2012 – 6th Summit of the Americas at Cartagena in Colombia. 2015 – 7th Summit of the Americas at Panama City in Panama. 2018 – 8th Summit of the Americas at Lima in Peru.

UN international conferences on Afghanistan

2001 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn 2004 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Berlin 2006 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London 2007 – International Conference on the Rule of Law in Afghanistan in Rome

2008 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Paris 2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Moscow 2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in The Hague 2010 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London

Miscellaneous

• 1520 – Field of the Cloth of Gold
• 1955 – Geneva Summit
• 1966 – Manila Summit Conference
• 1967 – Glassboro Summit Conference
• 1985 – Shamrock Summit
• 1986 – Reykjavík Summit
• 1989 – Malta Summit
• 1990 – World Summit for Children
• 2001 – Agra summit
• 2001 – Taba summit
• 2000 – 2000 Camp David Summit
• 2003–2005 – World Summit on the Information Society
• 2005 – Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005
• 2015 – Valletta Summit on Migration
• 2017 – 2017 Riyadh summit
• 2018 – 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit
• 2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
• 2023 – 2023 France-China Summit

See also

• ASEAN summit
• BRICS summits
• Francophonie Summits
• NATO summit
• Non-Aligned Movement Summits
• SAARC Summits

References

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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.
3. Ku, Minseon; Mitzen, Jennifer (April 2022). "The Dark Matter of World Politics: System Trust, Summits, and State Personhood". International Organization. 76 (4): 799–829. doi: 10.1017/S0020818322000169 . ISSN   0020-8183.