Bounding the Mekong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bounding the Mekong write by Jim Glassman. This book was released on 2010-09-16. Bounding the Mekong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asia’s formerly socialist states, and Thailand into a regional project called the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But while the GMS project is in fact hastening regional economic integration, Jim Glassman shows that the approach belies the ADB’s idealized description of "win-win" outcomes. The process of "actually existing globalization" in the GMS does provide varied opportunities for different actors, but it is less a rising tide that lifts all boats than an uneven flood of transnational capitalist development whose outcomes are determined by intense class struggles, market competition, and regulatory battles. Glassman makes the case for adopting a class-based approach to analysis of GMS development, regionalization, and actually existing globalization. First he analyzes the interests and actions of various Thai participants in GMS development, then the roles of different Chinese actors in GMS integration. He next provides two cases illustrating the serious limits of any notion that GMS integration is a relatively egalitarian process—Laos’ participation in GMS development and the role of migrant Burmese workers in the production of the GMS. He finds that Burmese migrant workers, dam-displaced Chinese and Laotian villagers, and economically-stressed Thai farmers and small businesses are relative "losers" compared to the powerful business interests that shape GMS integration from locations like Bangkok and Kunming, as well as key sites outside the GMS like Beijing, Singapore, and Tokyo. The final chapter blends geographical-historical analysis with an assessment of uneven development and actually existing globalization in the GMS. Cogent and persuasive, Bounding the Mekong will attract attention from the growing number of scholars analyzing globalization, neoliberalism, regionalization, and multiple scales of governance. It is suitable for graduate courses in geography, political science, and sociology as well as courses with a regional focus.
From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community
From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community write by Seiichi Igarashi. This book was released on 2021-11-29. From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering the Mekong region as an aggregation of various commons, the contributors to this volume investigate the various commons across the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The book incorporates the specialized fields of political science, area studies, public policy, international relations, international development, geography, economics, business administration, public health, engineering, agricultural economics, tropical agriculture, and biotechnology. The contributions to the book cover various issues including innovation and technology, transport and logistics, public health and literacy, traditional medicine, infectious diseases, advanced agricultural technologies, irrigation, water resources, labor migration, human trafficking, and counterfeiting. They examine various commons and goods related to these issues, and discuss practices, policies, decision-making processes and governance strategies for imagining a future Mekong Community that will avoid the tragedy, and explore the comedy of the commons/anti-commons. A valuable resource for scholars of the Mekong region, and more broadly for academics working on the interdisciplinary study of transboundary governance issues.
The Mekong Arranged & Rearranged
The Mekong Arranged & Rearranged - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mekong Arranged & Rearranged write by Ma. Serena I. Diokno. This book was released on 2006. The Mekong Arranged & Rearranged available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Flanked by a fast-growing China hungry for markets and energy and other resources, the Mekong region is a target of competing local, national, regional, and transnational as well as commercial interests. There are many "Mekong regions" and claims to its water, heritage sites, tourism potential, and other resources affect one or all the countries. This volume contains provocative and sometimes conflicting views about history, geopolitics, and current dilemmas by scholars across the region.
Developing the Mekong
Developing the Mekong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing the Mekong write by Evelyn Goh. This book was released on 2007. Developing the Mekong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sino-Southeast Asian regionalism is exemplified by the development plans for the Mekong River basin, where ambitious projects for building regional infrastructural linkages and trade contribute to mediating the security concerns of the Mekong countries.
On The Borders of State Power
On The Borders of State Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On The Borders of State Power write by Martin Gainsborough. This book was released on 2008-10-31. On The Borders of State Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering the main themes of globalization, state power and culture from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, this book explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
