When the World Last Met at Genoa

Remember the last time before the 2001 G8 Summit when the world’s major powers met in Genoa, Italy? You need to go all the way back to the year 1922. Instead of anti-globalization protesters, the unpleasant surprise of that summit was a special deal concluded between the newly created Soviet Union and Weimar Germany. World diplomacy was rocked harder than even the disruptions by today’s protesters.