Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the launch of the European Economic and Monetary Union shortly afterward, a growing number of studies have considered the idea of a so-called Asian Monetary System, mostly adopting the European Monetary System as its model. The operational adjustment...

The politics of reactive currency statecraft -- The rise of the "people's currency" -- The United Kingdom: a passionate advocate -- Japan: a diplomatic user of the renminbi -- South Korea: a late but active accommodator -- The United States: a confident hegemon.

This study analyses how a state's reactive currency statecraft—its strategic reaction to an international currency issued by a foreign state—is shaped, by devoting special attention to its broad foreign policy stance toward the state issuing that international currency, with a main empirical...

The international statuses of currencies shape a fundamental characteristic of the international monetary system, which has significant impacts on the world political economy by affecting the political as well as economic relationships among states. The study of international currencies has been...