This work is an exploration of the global market dynamics, their
intrinsic natures, common trends and dynamic interlinkages during the
stock market crises over the last twelve years. The study isolates
different phases of crisis and differentiates between any crisis that
remains confined to the region and those that take up a global
dimension. The latent structure of the global stock market, the
inter-regional and intra-regional stock market dynamics around the
crises are analyzed to get a complete picture of the structure of the
global stock market. The study further probing into the inherent nature
of the global stock market in generating crisis finds the global market
to be chaotic thus making the system intrinsically unstable or at best
to follow knife-edge stability. The findings have significant bearing at
theoretical level and on policy decisions.