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Contents; Figures and Table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; The Emergence of East Asian Financial Regionalism; The Strategic Political Economy of Financial Regionalism; The Rise of East Asia as a Region; Lending into Crises; Currency Management and Contestation; Bond Market Initiatives; Currency and Contest in East Asia; References; Index

Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vulnerable to global financial markets by transforming the regional financial architecture. With Japan as a leading actor, they have introduced initiatives to provide emergency financing to crisis economies, support the development of local-currency bond markets, and better coordinate currency policies. In Currency and Contest in East Asia, William W. Grimes builds on years of primary research and scores of interviews with participants and policy analysts to provide the most accurate, complete, and detailed description available of attempts to build financial cooperation among East Asian countries