Regional integration processes are proliferating in varied forms. A distinction between economic and institutional coordination is useful tool to clarify the nature of linkages between geographically close countries. Our typology based on these two criteria gives new light on the East-Asian...

</titre> <alinea/> This contribution aims at showing that the crisis reveals the importance of the debate about the decoupling of Asian and Western economies. Reacting to the 1997 crisis, East Asia has set up a process of regional integration based on financial cooperation. Nevertheless, the crisis beginning...

<alinea/> This paper proposes an analytical framework exposing all kinds of regional processes in the context of globalization. These latter may cover either economic factors, institutional factors, or both. Thus, regional economic integration can only be defined as the combination of these two aspects....

</titre> This contribution analyses the link between the process of regional economic integration in East Asia and the history of two major recent economic crises : 1997, the so-called ?Asian crisis?, and 2007 the ?subprime crisis?, ten years later. In 1997, an economic crisis is generated in Asia,...