The Significance of the Seven-Power Summit
by John
Kirton
Notes:
3. The decision on the rotation for hosting the annual summit is
now rigidly defined, according to the sequence of hosting for the
first round from 1975 to 1981. The sequence -- France, the
United States, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of
Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada -- reflects in very general terms
the relative influence wielded by each country at the summit as a
result of its material capability and historic role in creating
the summit institution. The major remaining ambiguity about this
precise order of precedence is the rather remote possibility of
the European Community being introduced into the hosting rotation
(presumably after Canada) at some point in the future.
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