The book focuses on issues such as improving regional policy dialogue and surveillance processes, as well as developing regional mechanisms to provide financial support to prevent and resolve financial crises.

1. Policy dialogue, surveillance and financial cooperation in East Asia 2. Policy dialogue in East Asia: Principles for success 3. IMF and ADB perspectives on regional surveillance in East Asia 4. Structures to support stability and growth: Some observations based on UK experience 5. The complex political economy of coooperation and integration 6. A Stocktake of institutions for regional cooperation 7. Strengthening regional financial cooperation in East Asia 8. The management of financial crises: Theory and Policy 9. Instruments and techniques for financial cooperation 10. The compatibility of capital controls with the development of financial markets 11. Unilateral regional and multilateral options for East Asia 12. The role of regional financial arrangements in the international financial architecture 13. The Basel Process and regional harmonisation in an Asian context