Mekong Multi-Cooperation Frameworks: States, Regional Institutions, Private Sectors and Elites

Qeios Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI:10.32388/r348og
M. Sithirith
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Conflict and cooperation are key governance challenges in transboundary river basin governance. Hydropower has been at the center of conflict and cooperation in the transboundary river basin governance. Over time, hydropower produces a sort of material geopolitics within regions. Technological changes and the changing regional geopolitics create different power relations over hydropower. One of the gaps in current research seems to be about how technological and material transformations of hydropower have affected the transboundary river cooperation in the post-Cold War era.The paper uses a literature review and a case study of the Lower Sasan 2 (LS2) Dam to to study the changing political dimensions of the Mekong region from a confronting platform to multi-regional cooperation frameworks; and how powerful actors such as states, regional institutions, private sectors, and elites shape regional cooperations and produce competing programs and projects in the Mekong region.. It concludes that hydropower has been politicized and technologically manipulated by powerful actors in the last five decades of the Mekong River Cooperation. Cambodia has positioned itself strategically in its relationships with these hydro-hegemons to compete for hydropower dam projects and protect its interests but runs a significant risk of increased social and environmental impacts along with local resistances.
湄公河多元合作框架:国家、地区机构、私营部门和精英阶层
冲突与合作是跨界河流流域治理的主要挑战。水电一直是跨界流域治理中冲突与合作的核心。随着时间的推移,水电在区域内产生了某种物质地缘政治。技术变革和不断变化的地区地缘政治造成了不同的水电权力关系。目前研究中的一个空白似乎是水电技术和物质变革如何影响了后冷战时代的跨界河流合作。本文通过文献综述和对下萨山 2 号(LS2)大坝的案例研究,研究了湄公河地区从对峙平台到多区域合作框架的政治层面的变化,以及国家、地区机构、私营部门和精英等强势行为体如何在湄公河地区塑造地区合作并制定相互竞争的计划和项目。柬埔寨在与这些水电巨头的关系中进行了战略定位,以争夺水电大坝项目并保护自身利益,但却面临着社会和环境影响加剧以及当地抵制的巨大风险。
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