Table of Contents

Introduction: The Roots of the Crisis (Karl D Jackson); Japans Key Challenges for the 21st Century (Davis Asher and Andrew Smithers); Reflections of a Market Participant: Japanese and Asian Financial Institutions (Eugene R. Dattel); China and the Asian Financial Contagion (Nicholas R. Lardy); Domestic Follies, Investment Crises: East Asian Lessons for India (Surjit S. Bhalla); The Financial Crisis in South Korea: Anatomy and Policy Imperatives (Hak K. Pyo); Thailand: From Economic Miracle to Economic Crisis (Richard F. Doner and Ansil Ramsay); Indonesias Crisis and Future Prospects (Ross H. McLeod); Korea: A Tiger Confounded (Hak Pyo); The Philippines as an Unwitting Participant in the Asian Economic Crisis (Manuel F. Montes); Viet Nam: Ordeals of Transition (William Turley).

About the Author

Karl D. Jackson is the director of the Southeast Asia Program of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He has served as Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs at the National Security Council, Deputy Assistant Secretary of defense for East Asia. He is author of Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion: A Study of Indonesian Political Behavior and editor or co-editor of volumes on Indonesia, Cambodia, ASEAN and U.S.-Thailand relations.