</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...

</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,...