This paper analyzes detailed differences in patterns of financial development across the major Asian economies, including three of the region's largest economies (China, Japan and South Korea), to understand how these differences might affect possibilities for greater regional financial...

The paper aims to examine economic interdependence and balancing power politics, and their mixed implications for regional institution building in East Asia based on the concept of common security. By pointing out the gap between the violent conflict prediction and the stability and prosperity...

A common view holds that the trend toward Asian financial regionalism is a relatively new phenomenon that became significant after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98. This paper challenges this view by exploring and analyzing financial regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As...

Nach den Finanzkrisen der 1990er Jahre haben sich in Asien und Lateinamerika Formen eines monetären Regionalismus (mR) herausgebildet, die das gemeinsame Ziel verfolgen, die eigene Region vor zukünftigen Finanzkrisen zu schützen. Dabei fallen wesentliche Unterschiede im Vorankommen der beiden...