We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: (i) The credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan, (ii) The foreign reserves’ meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes...

"We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: 1) the credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes of...

"This book was published as the fruit of a three-year and five-year research between 2008-2011 and 2008-2013 respectively about the 'The enlarged EU and East Asian regional cooperation in the international politics - integration, security and social security.'"--p. 1

Key Features:The book should stand out from the rest of the pack because of its timeliness, authoritativeness, focus and scopeThe book rests on the latest research of the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economies, and Asian scholars participating in a Japan Foundation sponsored project on the...

Key Features:A Japan Foundation sponsored iconoclastic assessment of Asia's future by a team of international expertsMakes the case for intra-Asian economic "divergence" instead of "convergence"Addresses the specter of "deglobalization" caused by "global imbalances," and "beggar-thy-neighbor"...

We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: 1) the credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes of...