Foreign exploitation of economic crises in the developing world has been a central claim of neoliberal critics. This important and recurring international theme is the subject of closer scrutiny in this new collection, where contributors offer competing interpretations of the interaction between international and domestic forces after crises.

ANDREW BAKER Senior Lecturer in Political Economy in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at the Queen's University of Belfast, UKKORSAN CEVDET Executive Manager, Group Risk Management, at the Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaROBET CULL Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group of the World BankGISELLE DATZ Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of the District of Columbia, USAMAHRUKH DOCTOR Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Hull, UK, Visiting Adjunct Lecturer at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), Italy, and Research Associate at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, UKLUIZ FERNANDO DE PAULA Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), BrazilMARIA SOLEDAD MARTINEZ PERIA Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group of The World BankMARIA PIA RIGGIROZZI holds an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UKOR RAVIV PhD candidate at the University of Sussex, UKNEIL ROBINSON Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick, IrelandANDREW ROSSER Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia BEN THIRKELL-WHITE Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK

Introduction: Key Theoretical Divides and Directions; J.Robertson PART I: INTERNATIONAL ACTORS AND ISSUE AREAS Financial Crises and US Treasury Policy: The Institutional and Ideational Basis of American Capability; A.Baker Crises as Catalysts for Foreign Bank Activity in Emerging Markets; R.Cull& M.Soledad Martínez Pería Adaptable Agendas: Private Creditors and the Politics of Debt in Emerging Markets; G.Datz The Political Economy of International Financial Reform Since the Asian Crisis: The Case of Corporate Governance; A.Rosser PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES Argentina: State Capacity and Leverage in External Negotiations; M.P.Riggirozzi Brazil: Mixed Impact of Financial Crises on Manufacturing and Financial Sector; M.Doctor& L.Fernando de Paula Central Europe: Predatory Finance and the Financialization of the New European Periphery; O.Raviv Indonesia and Malaysia: The Persistence of a Domestic Politico-Business Class; B.Thirkell-White Russia: Limiting the Impact of Crisis in a Post-Communist Transitional Economy; N.Robinson Turkey: Risk-Conscious Foreign Firms and a Maturing Domestic Banking Sector; K.Cevdet Conclusion: Contesting the Return to State-Led Economies; J.Robertson