Introduction : analysing the rise of regular summitry / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero -- New tools for international and European governance -- Twentieth-century summitry and the G7 process / David Reynolds -- The foundations of summitry / Nicholas Bayne -- The road to rambouillet and the creation of the group of five / Elizabeth Benning -- Less than a permanent secretariat, more than an ad-hoc preparatory group : a prosopography of the G7's personal representatives, 1975-1991 / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol -- Between political messages and public expectations : G7 summits in French and US public opinions, 1975-1985 / Noèel Bonhomme -- Global and western challenges -- Refashioning the West to dispel its fears : the early G7 summits / Federico Romero -- Creating the expectation of a collective response : the impact of summitry on transatlantic relations / N. Piers Ludlow -- The rise of summitry and EEC-Japan trade relations / Hitoshi Suzuki -- The road to Cancun: the life and death of a North-South summit / Guia Migani -- G7s, European councils and East-West economic relations, 1975-1982 / Angela Romano -- Conclusions / Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Federico Romero.