About the Author

T. J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coeditor of Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy, also from Cornell, and Japan in Crisis: What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again?

Reviews

"The volume edited by Pempel is likely to become a key reference point for future scholarship on the political economy of crisis in Asia and beyond."-Eva-Lotta Hedman, University of Nottingham. International Affairs. July 2000. "The thoughts of the finest political analysts from both within and without East Asia are collected in this outstanding volume... The contributors emphasize nuance and detail over parsimony of explanation."-Hilton L. Root, The Milken Institute. Journal of Asian Studies. August 2000 "Pempel has put together an outstanding volume that will be of interest to academics with an interest in the region, crisis managment, or the complex interconnections that explain so many commercial events. This volume should have an impact on academic thinking, and it should have that impact for a long time... This is a volume worth reading, and worth reading carefully."-John E. Butler, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, June 2001 "The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis is a must read for anyone interested in the national, regional, and global dimensions of the Asian economic crisis... It has far-reaching comparative implications beyond ... Asia... Indeed, major economic crisis is nothing new to Latin America, and the former Soviet states have many lessons to learn, particularly as they navigate the rocky waters of the dual transition to democracy and a market-based economy."-Joseph Wong, University of Toronto. Journal of East Asian Studies 2002 2:2 "This collection of works, edited by T.J.Pempel, comprising contributions from a host of political analysts with expertise on the region, is essential to any reader of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s. Moreover, following an international relations approach, this text offers a more comprehensive evaluation of the events in the region than what is provided by conventional readings of the crisis, which pertain mainly from a neoliberal viewpoint."-Georgina Salah, University of East London. Review of Radical Political Economics, Spring 2003.