Managing the crisis

Abstract

Welcome to the first issue of East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ). EAFQ has grown out of East Asia Forum (EAF) online which over the past year has developed a reputation for providing a platform for the best in Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia Pacific region in world affairs. EAFQ aims to provide a further window onto research in the leading research institutes in Asia and to provide expert comment on current developments within the region. Our first issue brings together essays by influential commentators on the outlook for countries around the region as they confront the next phase of the global financial crisis. Analysing the crisis and the response by the nations in the region, one conclusion readily reached is that East Asia could not readily step up to the mark in responding to the crisis because its regional structures are still not up to the task of effective global participation. This issue therefore sets the agenda for our next magazine – on how that regional architecture might be turned more effectively to the purpose of responding to the big problems of the day in their global context. The East Asia Forum Quarterly, like East Asia Forum online, is an initiative of the East Asia Forum (EAF) and its host organization, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) in the Crawford School of Economics and Government in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. It draws on the research base at the ANU to link together over 40 leading institutes in East and South Asia in research and discourse on public policy and international affairs in the region. Show more