From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessible book brings together leading scholars to examine current changes in international financial regulation. They assess whether the flurry of ambitious initiatives to improve and strengthen international financial regulation signals an important turning point in the regulation of global finance. The text:

1. Introduction - Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change Eric Helleiner and Stefano Pagliari Part 1: Issues and Structures 2. Regulatory Reactions to the Global Credit Crisis: Analysing a Policy Community under Stress Eleni Tsingou 3. The Politics of Accounting Regulation: Responses to the Subprime Crisis Andreas Nölke 4. Risk Models and Transnational Governance in the Global Financial Crisis: The Cases of Basel II and Credit Rating Agencies Tony Porter 5. The End of Self-Regulation? Hedge Funds and Derivatives in Global Financial Governance Eric Helleiner and Stefano Pagliari Part 2: Countries and Regions 6. Uncertain Leadership: The U.S. Regulatory Response to the Global Financial Crisis David Andrew Singer 7. Is a European Approach to Financial Regulation Emerging from the Crisis? Elliot Posner 8. Varieties of Global Financial Governance? British and German Approaches to Financial Market Regulation Hubert Zimmermann 9. Mission Accomplished, or a Sisyphean Task? Japan's Regulatory Responses to the Global Financial Crisis Saori N. Katada 10. Chinese Attitudes towards Global Financial Regulatory Cooperation: Revisionist or Status Quo? Andrew Walter 11. Whither International Financial Regulation? Hubert Zimmermann