"This book, written by international experts of the Asian and world economies, provides an assessment of the likely causes and potential impact of the 1990s' Asian financial crisis for use by governments, national international institutions and organizations, academics and stude…
"This book, written by international experts of the Asian and world economies, provides an assessment of the likely causes and potential impact of the 1990s' Asian financial crisis for use by governments, national international institutions and organizations, academics and stude…
"The unthinkable has happened. The extraordinary success of the Asian economies has been stopped in its tracks by a series of devastating financial crises. Asia Meltdown gives a blow-by-blow account of how it all started, what caused it - from international currency speculation …
"The unthinkable has happened. The extraordinary success of the Asian economies has been stopped in its tracks by a series of devastating financial crises. Asia Meltdown gives a blow-by-blow account of how it all started, what caused it - from international currency speculation …
The Asian Crash led many to demand more and better politics, but no ASEAN country was willing to forfeit its GDP growth for non-material goals. This study analyzes the clash of two antithetical Asianisms: Amartya Sen's "Eastern Strategy" and the new capitalist authoritarianism. …
"Thanks to the inroads made by the International Monetary Fund and the 'war on terror, ' America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s. The winners, by default, are some of the world's most undemocratic development models such as Sino-globalis…
Both Europe and the Asia Pacific agree their relationship is important. For many years it has been considered the weakest leg of the trilateral international system with US/Asia Pacific relations at the forefront. In the last few years, however, real efforts have been made to br…