Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: Present and Future of the Mekong River Basin
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.2.69-97" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.2.69-97</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: Present and Future of the Mekong River Basin
Original language description
The main aim of this article is to analyse the role of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) ) and to explore current milestones and challenges in the context of regional water cooperation. The LMC represents a specific form of a sub-regional platform which has been established in 2016 by China's government. The purpose of this intergovernmental organization is to promote regional cooperation between six riparian states (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam) and ensure sustainable development of the Lancang-Mekong Sub-region. The results show that despite the LMC does not meet all the criteria to become a proper River Basin Organization (RBO), it still remains highly progressive and widely popular among the riparian states. Currently, according to RBOs database from Oregon State University (2019) there can be identified only three inter-basin RBOs which together ensure transboundary water cooperation in Southeast Asia. The author concludes that despite the LMC offering many opportunities for further river development, the LMC still did not reach its full potential and face several challenges. Data has been collected by process-tracing analysis of official documents and from secondary literature related to the LMC and Mekong River development. The author applied the concept of multi-track water diplomacy and compare the current performance of the LMC with other RBOs to illustrate the role of RBOs in TWM. The findings of this article therefore can be applied to other case studies where RBOs possess a strong position in shaping TWM and where China builds up viable regional cooperation.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politicke Vedy
ISSN
1335-2741
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
69-97
UT code for WoS article
000607484000003
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