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9781403920782

The IMF and the Politics of Financial Globalization From the Asian Crisis to a New International Financial Architecture?

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    9781403920782

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    1403920788

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-21
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The Asian crisis triggered ongoing controversy over the IMF's role in a "new international financial architecture". This book argues for a political approach to crisis and reform, placing current debates in the context of the politics of financial regulation since Bretton Woods. It explores links between domestic political controversy over IMF policy in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and the United States and the broader politics of IMF decision-making.

Author Biography

Ben Thirkell-White is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations ix
1. Introduction 1(18)
1.1 A political approach to the IMF and financial globalization
3(4)
1.2 In search of the politics of the Fund — the concept of legitimacy
7(6)
1.3 The core argument
13(6)
Part I
2. IMF Legitimacy: Principles and Institutions
19(28)
2.1 IMF legitimacy, core principles
20(6)
2.2 Analysis
26(14)
2.3 Decision-making in practice: formulating conditionality
40(5)
2.4 Conclusions
45(2)
3. An Evolving IMF
47(30)
3.1 The IMF's evolving mandate
48(13)
3.2 Responding to financial globalization, the IMF in the 1990's
61(13)
3.3 Conclusions
74(3)
Part II
4. The Asian Crisis and the Case Studies
77(21)
4.1 The politics of IMF legitimacy and the case studies
77(3)
4.2 The politics of the Asian crisis
80(17)
4.3 Conclusions
97(1)
5. South Korea
98(30)
5.1 Background to the crisis
99(7)
5.2 The crisis in Korea
106(5)
5.3 Political interests and post-crisis reforms
111(5)
5.4 The politics of crisis management
116(10)
5.5 Conclusions
126(2)
6. Indonesia
128(28)
6.1 Background to the crisis
129(7)
6.2 The crisis in Indonesia
136(7)
6.3 The politics of crisis management
143(10)
6.4 Conclusions
153(3)
7. Malaysia
156(23)
7.1 Background to the crisis
157(6)
7.2 The crisis in Malaysia
163(6)
7.3 The politics of crisis management
169(8)
7.4 Conclusions
177(2)
8. The United States
179(26)
8.1 Institutional environment
179(5)
8.2 Pre-crisis US foreign policy
184(5)
8.3 US responses to the IMF's role in Asia
189(8)
8.4 Outcomes and analysis: Treasury policy after the crisis
197(4)
8.5 Conclusions
201(4)
Part III
9. From Crisis to a New Architecture?
205(35)
9.1 The IMF and the politics of financial globalization
206(7)
9.2 IMF decision-making and the Fund's new role
213(9)
9.3 The politics of crisis
222(8)
9.4 Towards a new international financial architecture?
230(10)
10. Conclusions
240(6)
Notes 246(7)
Bibliography 253(16)
Index 269

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