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Open data on international institutions, updated regularly. Free to use under CC BY 4.0.
Our datasets are used by journalists, researchers and policy analysts studying international governance.
Core research areas covering the major institutions and frameworks of international cooperation.
The international system is being remade in real time. A new peacekeeping body backed by $17 billion in pledges now competes with the UN framework that has defined multilateral security since 1945. The G7 has reoriented itself around the war in Ukraine and AI governance. The G20 is struggling to produce consensus statements as geopolitical fault lines deepen between its members. BRICS has expanded from five countries to ten, with more candidates waiting.
Most coverage of these shifts is event-driven: a summit happens, a declaration is issued, a headline appears. What is harder to find is structured data — who joined what, when, at what cost, and with what consequences. That is what G8 Online publishes. Our datasets track membership, funding and institutional evolution across the major governance bodies. Our reports compare them on the metrics that matter: legal authority, financial resources, enforcement capacity and democratic legitimacy.
The site started in 2001 as a student project on G8 summitry. Twenty-five years and several institutional transformations later, the scope has expanded but the approach has not changed: primary sources, verifiable data, no opinion disguised as analysis.
G8 Online is an independent research and data platform on global governance. Founded in 2001 as an educational project on international cooperation, today it publishes datasets, policy reports and analysis on institutions like the G7, G20, Board of Peace, EU and BRICS.