Wei Liang is associate professor of international policy studies and a research fellow in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.Faizullah Khilji received his D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He has worked in various capacities in economic management with the Government of Pakistan.

In a series of empirically rich chapters, Wei Liang and Faizullah Khilji convincingly show how, even despite the absence of a leader and a master plan, an East Asian space formed as a result of the 1997-98 Asian Financial and 2008 Global Economic Crises, Western inertia and policy failings, East Asian successes, the rise of China-centric production networks, national interests, and the demise of traditional security imperatives, which collectively delegitimized conventional dogmas and players, and supported new forms of regional collaboration.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Asian Financial Crisis and the Resort to Regional CooperationChapter 3. Processed Manufacturing and Trade CooperationChapter 4. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and China’s ResponseChapter 5. East Asian Perspectives on Economic PoliciesChapter 6. East Asia as a Community in Flux

Wei Liang is associate professor of international policy studies and a research fellow in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.Faizullah Khilji received his D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He has worked in various capacities in economic management with the Government of Pakistan.

In a series of empirically rich chapters, Wei Liang and Faizullah Khilji convincingly show how, even despite the absence of a leader and a master plan, an East Asian space formed as a result of the 1997-98 Asian Financial and 2008 Global Economic Crises, Western inertia and policy failings, East Asian successes, the rise of China-centric production networks, national interests, and the demise of traditional security imperatives, which collectively delegitimized conventional dogmas and players, and supported new forms of regional collaboration.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Asian Financial Crisis and the Resort to Regional CooperationChapter 3. Processed Manufacturing and Trade CooperationChapter 4. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and China’s ResponseChapter 5. East Asian Perspectives on Economic PoliciesChapter 6. East Asia as a Community in Flux

Wei Liang is associate professor of international policy studies and a research fellow in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.Faizullah Khilji received his D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He has worked in various capacities in economic management with the Government of Pakistan.

In a series of empirically rich chapters, Wei Liang and Faizullah Khilji convincingly show how, even despite the absence of a leader and a master plan, an East Asian space formed as a result of the 1997-98 Asian Financial and 2008 Global Economic Crises, Western inertia and policy failings, East Asian successes, the rise of China-centric production networks, national interests, and the demise of traditional security imperatives, which collectively delegitimized conventional dogmas and players, and supported new forms of regional collaboration.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Asian Financial Crisis and the Resort to Regional CooperationChapter 3. Processed Manufacturing and Trade CooperationChapter 4. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and China’s ResponseChapter 5. East Asian Perspectives on Economic PoliciesChapter 6. East Asia as a Community in Flux