期刊名称:International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度:2003
期号:31
出版社:International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要:In the wake of the Asian financial meltdown, numerous analysts focused on the lack of regulation and transparency as factorsprecipitating the 1997 crisis. Partly as a result of pressure from international financial institutions, countries have started to improvethe legal frameworks in which businesses operate. Christoph Antons' Rule of Law in East and Southeast Asiabrings together avariety of perspectives from legal scholars on the reforms now underway. Traditional Asian understandings of law as an instrumentof state power notwithstanding, do we see signs of a greater regional importance attached to the rule of law