Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits, Revised and Enlarged Edition - Paperbackby Robert D. Putnam (Author), Nicholas Bayne (Author) For nearly a decade the leaders of the seven major industrial countries the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Canada have met annually to discuss international economic and political issues. Regular summitry of this sort is virtually unprecedented in modern diplomacy. Proponents see the Western summits as providing collective leadership that is vital in a turbulent world,