AEI scholars available to comment on the G-8 summit at Gleneagles.

On July 6, the leaders of the G-8 nations will converge at Gleneagles, Scotland for their annual summit, with British prime minister Tony Blair driving two issues to the top of the agenda: climate change and the plight of Africa.

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As world leaders gathered in Gleneagles, Scotland, for their annual G-8 summit, a wave of coordinated terrorist bombings struck London, killing dozens. These attacks and their aftermath will be the subject of an AEI briefing. AEI scholars Thomas Donnelly, Frederick Kagan, Michael Rubin, and Radek Sikorski will be joined by...

The Marshall Plan's role in the economic recovery of Europe after World War II is often invoked as indisputable proof that foreign aid works. In 2005, while serving as chancellor of the exchequer, British prime minister Gordon Brown called for "a new deal between developed and developing countries as bold...

It"s not the people of UK and United States that need to be paying attention, but those in France and Germany. It's time to wake up--Paris and Berlin may well be next.

China is using energy, which applies massive leverage to any economy, to pull its people out of poverty, just as Britain and the U.S. did a century ago. Africa deserves the same opportunity.

Chancellor Schröder or President Chirac have an opportunity to show solidarity, and they should not blow it.

As the G-8 negotiations enter their final phase there appears to be no deal on agricultural subsidies or climate change; France's proposalsarepotentially disastrous for global economies.