Description:
Grimes uses primary research and interviews with scores of participants and policy analysts to provide the most accurate, complete, and detailed description available of attempts to build financial cooperation among East Asian countries.
Review Quotes: "Currency and Contest in East Asia is an invaluable analysis of the evolution of financial regionalism in East Asia, particularly Japan. William Grimes explains many of the technical financial issues thoroughly and carefully and asserts that recent developments in the region may be explained by a realist framework."--Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California