What Can We Realistically Expect From the G20?

The 2012 Seoul summit marked the end of the second year of the G20’s crisis-related activities. This policy brief takes stock of the G20’s accomplishments and methods of operation, cutting through the rhetoric to identify what can reasonably be expected of the G20 over the medium term. For a variety of reasons, the development of a series of evolving accommodations — articulated imprecisely to outsiders — is the most governments and analysts should expect.