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...

As the internationalisation of the renminbi has progressed rapidly in recent years, research on it has also grown considerably. However, most of this research tends to focus analysing it from the supply side, looking, for example, at China's economic and political conditions and related policy...

Who has been in the driving seat promoting internationalization of the Chinese renminbi? Why has this actor been pushing it? How has the project managed to acquire support from other domestic actors? This study addresses these issues, highlighting the leading role of the Chinese central bank in...

This paper analyzes the factors that have contributed to development of the Chiang Mai Initiative, which is one of the prominent examples of recent East Asian financial cooperation, by comparing it with the failed 1997 proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund