Power and Politics After Financial Crises

JUSTIN ROBERSTON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University, Hong Kong, where is also an Associate of the Southeast Asia Research Centre. He is also an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-editor of Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy-Making Structures and Processes and is currently researching changing forms of business in the global political economy.

• Introduction: Key Theoretical Divides and Directions; J.Robertson PART I: INTERNATIONAL ACTORS AND ISSUE AREAS Financial Crises and US Treasury Policy: The Institutional and Ideational Basis of American Capability; A.Baker Crises as Catalysts for Foreign Bank Activity in Emerging Markets; R.Cull & M.Soledad Martínez Pería Adaptable Agendas: Private Creditors and the Politics of Debt in Emerging Markets; G.Datz The Political Economy of International Financial Reform Since the Asian Crisis: The Case of Corporate Governance; A.Rosser PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES Argentina: State Capacity and Leverage in External Negotiations; M.P.Riggirozzi Brazil: Mixed Impact of Financial Crises on Manufacturing and Financial Sector; M.Doctor & L.Fernando de Paula Central Europe: Predatory Finance and the Financialization of the New European Periphery; O.Raviv Indonesia and Malaysia: The Persistence of a Domestic Politico-Business Class; B.Thirkell-White Russia: Limiting the Impact of Crisis in a Post-Communist Transitional Economy; N.Robinson Turkey: Risk-Conscious Foreign Firms and a Maturing Domestic Banking Sector; K.Cevdet Conclusion: Contesting the Return to State-Led Economies; J.Robertson