Contents:

1. The Political Economy of the International Monetary and Financial Systems
Thomas Oatley and W. Kindred Winecoff

PART I: STRUCTURE, POWER, AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
2. Financial Roots of Hegemony, Cooperation, and Globalization
Andrew C. Sobel

3. Political Economy of Currency Internationalization
Hyoung-kyu Chey

4. The Political Economy of the Contemporary Dollar Standard
Thomas Oatley

5. Global Imbalances and the International Monetary System
Herman Schwartz

6. The Triffin Dilemma, the Lucas Paradox, and Monetary Politics in the 21st Century
W. Kindred Winecoff

7. The Renminbi-Dollar Relationship: Politics and Economics of a Diminishing Issue
Yale H. Ferguson

8. Absolute or Relative Gains? How Status Quo and Emerging Powers Conceptualize Global Finance
Leslie Elliott Armijo and John Echeverri-Gent

PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EXCHANGE RATES
Core Theoretical Perspectives
9. Private Actor Exchange Rate Policy Preferences
Stephanie Walter

10. Domestic Institutions and Exchange Rates
David H. Bearce

Regional Exchange Rate Systems
11. Exchange Rates In Transition Economies
Jana Grittersová

12. Currency Unions in the Developing World
Scott Cooper

13. The Political Economy of Exchange Rates in East Asia
Hongying Wang

PART III: GLOBAL FINANCE: CRISES AND REGULATION
14. Financial Crises and the Politics of Adjustment and Reform
Thomas B. Pepinsky

15. Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Markets as Sources of Macroeconomic Discipline
Thomas D. Willett, Eric M.P. Chiu and Stefanie Walter

16. The Politics of Global Financial Regulation
Kevin Young

17. Why Club Goods Proliferated in Investment Finance
W. Travis Selmier II

18. Rethinking Financial Regulation: Risk, Club Goods, and Regulatory Fatigue
Philip G. Cerny

19. The Gnomes of Zurich Meet the Dogs of War: Financial Leadership and Regulation, 1850–2013
Michael Lee

PART IV: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY INSTITUTIONS
20. Financial Governance in a Globalizing World
Richard W. Mansbach

21. IMF Programs: Participation, Implementation, and Effects
Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands

22. In Lieu of an Anchor: The Fund and its Surveillance Function
Bessma Momani and Kevin A. English

23. The EU and the Euro
Michele Chang

24. Our (Gracious?) Benefactors: US, Japan, China and East Asian Monetary Relations
Emmanuel Yujuico