Political leaders and international organizations will increasingly resist being caught up in summit meetings without having in place diplomatic strategies for communicating and dealing with the public at large, both at home and abroad. Such a development does in fact not amount to a crisis of summitry, but to summitry coming of age. It is part of a wider process of progression towards a more collaborative mode of diplomacy. For many reasons, including the politics of prestige, democratic legitimacy and accountability, political leaders will remain pivotal in diplomacy- but it will no longer be so lonely at the top.