The shifting regional geopolitics of Mekong dams |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography, Geomatics and Planning, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China;2. Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA;3. Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, 1060, Nishikawatsu-Cho, Matsue 690-8504, Japan;4. Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8567, Japan;5. HCMC Institute of Resources Geography, VAST, 01 Mac Dinh Chi St., Dist. 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam |
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Abstract: | The Mekong is a region whose geopolitics are shifting in complex ways. They are shifting with the post-Cold War reconfiguration of ideological as well as strategic power deployments. They are also shifting with rapid economic development and associated regional integration. This paper employs these various dimensions of shifting geopolitics to explore and partially explain the (re)emergence of hydropower development in the Mekong. It does so by outlining both the shifting geopolitics of river and region, and showing how the Mekong as metaphor extends to much more than the materiality of the river from which the multiply constructed region derives its name. It suggests that the regional geopolitics produced by these shifts is key to the re-emergence of mainstream hydropower. |
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