International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities

Kelly, Robert E.

doi:10.1080/09614520802689618

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“…To exploit the Mekong River in a way that is more equitable for scientific purposes, Mekong countries and other relative organizations established some regional cooperation mechanisms to enforce cooperation (Weatherbee, 1997;Greg Browder, 2000). Although these mechanisms achieved some substantial progress in the subregion cooperation at the Lancang-Mekong basin (Jacobs, 2002;Kelly, 2009), especially in trade and economics (Than, 2005), the functioning of these regional organizations is still far from optimal in terms of water cooperation (Keskinen et al, 2008). They continue to fail in effectively coordinating the differences in the development and utilization of water resources in all riparian countries.…”

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New transboundary water resources cooperation for Greater Mekong Subregion: the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation

2021

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The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) is a new type of regional cooperation mechanism in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It was officially co-founded by six Lancang-Mekong countries in 2016. Water resources cooperation is the flagship field of the LMC. The goal of this article is to introduce comprehensively the LMC and to illustrate why it can be regarded as a new choice for regional water resources cooperation in the GMS. This paper first reviews the background to LMC's foundation, and then introduces the structural framework, operating mechanism and recent advances of the LMC. It will then analyze the deficiencies of the present water resources cooperation mechanisms in the GMS and the comparative advantages of water resources cooperation under LMC. Finally, some suggestions were given to improve and reinforce water resources cooperation under the LMC. This research concludes that the LMC is more suitable for the actual needs and objective reality of Lancang-Mekong countries owing to its high-level and all-round regional cooperation mechanism. It was established jointly by all riparian states, with a shared vision to enhance the well-being of six countries' people, and works to narrow the development gap among regional countries.

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confidence: 99%