This paper looks at the development of the banking sector in emerging East Asia in the 10 years since the financial crisis of 1997/98. It suggests that the health of banking sectors in the region has improved substantially, with key changes including increased foreign ownership, movement into...

Legitimacy is a social source of financial power -- Legitimacy in political economy -- The financial reform nexus in England -- The financial reform nexus in Germany -- The financial reform nexus in the United States -- The financial reform nexus in Japan -- The social sources of international...

Financial reform has rebalanced the power of international engagement, reducing the role of the President and his diplomats, and increasing that of Congress and independent agencies. In so doing, the reforms have readjusted a balance that many believe was skewed by the government's response to...

This comment reflects the author's submitted panelist paper and related remarks at the SMU Dedman School of Law and SMU International Law Review Association Symposium on Transnational Networks. The author focuses on the developing transnational network in the area of international bank...

Introduction -- Financial globalization and the international financial architecture -- The evolution of the global financial order -- The breakdown of the Bretton Woods system and first reform of the international financial architecture -- Emerging market financial crises and the second reform...