Bounding the Mekong: The Asian Development Bank‚ China and Thailand

Glassman, Jim

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“…In the last decade or so, northern Laos -one of the poorest and most remote areas of Southeast Asia -has been undergoing a profound transformation as it became the site of one of the major transport arteries of the Greater Mekong Subregion, a project of economic integration supported by the Asian Development Bank (Glassman 2012). This has facilitated the entry of Chinese investors attracted by cheap labour and available land to grow cash crops such as rubber and cassava, for which demand in China is high.…”

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The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China's Borders

Saxer

Zhang²

2017

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The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China's Borders

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2017

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“…However, they do this by changing their domestic governance arrangements in line with regionally devised regulatory frameworks and the transformed state apparatuses are being networked at a regional scale -i.e., they are engaged in regulatory regionalism. Other notable attempts to create regional and regionally governed economic spaces through state transformation include the ADB's Greater Mekong Subregion program (Glassman 2010;Tubilewicz and Jayasuriya, this issue), and the Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Project (Carroll and Sovacool 2010).…”

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Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia

Hameiri

Jones

2014

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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With the intensification of the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) worldwide campaign to promote anti-money laundering regulation since the late 1990s, all Asian states except North Korea have signed up to its rules and have established a regional institution -the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering -to promote and oversee the implementation of FATF's 40Recommendations in the region. This paper analyses the FATF regime, making two key claims: first, anti-money laundering governance in Asia reflects a broader shift to regulatory regionalism, particularly in economic matters, in that its implementation and functioning depend upon the rescaling of ostensibly domestic agencies to function within a regional governance regime. Second, although this form of regulatory regionalism is established in order to bypass the perceived constraints of national sovereignty and political will, it nevertheless inevitably becomes entangled within the socio-political conflicts that shape the exercise of state power more broadly. Consequently, understanding the outcomes of regulatory regionalism involves identifying how these conflicts shape how far and in what manner global regulations are adopted and implemented within specific territories. This argument is demonstrated by a case study of Myanmar.

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“…According to Hensengerth (2009, p. 338) 'the GMS is the product of the second wave of regionalism that swept through East and Southeast Asia after the Cold War' should be 'set in the context of post-Cold War efforts of nation-building and regional integration and the dual processes of globalization and regionalization.' In a critical examination of the GMS, Glassman (2010) conceptualizes the whole project as being an aspect of 'actually existing globalization' benefitting various large private and public sector concerns from distant GMS capitals and provincial centres, as well as transnational capitalist forces, which generate cross-regional linkages mostly for resource access, exploitation, and various 'scale-jumping' projects of accumulation (Glassman, 2010, p. 2).…”

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ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region

Lin

Grundy‐Warr

2012

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN's resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages within the eastern frontiers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In this article we focus on ASEAN's growing roles and relations within three key 'spheres' of adjoining regional-extra-regional reach, which we identify as the mostly landward Greater Mekong Sphere (GMS), the South China Sea Sphere and the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea Sphere. The Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea straddle between the Indian Ocean Region and ASEAN, so this offers a joint issue of cooperation and proximate regionalism. As for the GMS and South China Sea, the common Chinese factor holds important geo-economic and geopolitical references that IOR could incorporate into its foreign policy portfolio. Despite ASEAN's at times belowpar performances and contradictions in terms of regional and internal security, its direct and adjacent interconnectedness with the IOR suggests that it is perhaps one of the best institutions to learn from in terms of strengthening the IOR's future regionalism aspirations. ASEAN and Interconnecting Regional Spheres: Lessons for Indian Ocean Region AbstractIn an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN's resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles, mean that ASEAN may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkage within the eastern frontiers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In this paper we focus on ASEAN's growing roles and relations within three key 'Spheres' of adjoining regional-extra-regional reach, in which we identified these as the mostly landward Greater Mekong Sphere, the South China Sea Sphere, and the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sphere. The Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea straddles between the Indian Ocean Region and ASEAN, so this offers a joint issue of cooperation and proximate regionalism. As for the GMS and South China Sea, the common Chinese factor holds important geo-economic and geopolitical references that IOR could incorporate in its foreign policy portfolio. Despite ASEAN's below par performances and contradictions in terms of regional and internal security at times, it's direct and adjacent interconnectedness with the IOR suggests it is perhaps one of the best institutions to learn from in strengthening IOR's future regionalism aspirations.

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Bounding the Mekong: The Asian Development Bank‚ China and Thailand

Cited by 43 publications

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The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China's Borders

The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China's Borders

Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia

ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region

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