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Institutionalization of sub-regional cooperation: The case of the Greater Mekong Sub-region
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | In the early 1990s, Southeast Asia saw the emergence of sub-regional cooperation initiatives that cut across national boundaries. Three important programs were adopted: the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT), and the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-MalaysiaPhilippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA). Indeed, sub-regionalism is a growing phenomenon in East Asia today, as manifested in the rapid emergence of sub-regional growth triangles and transnational economic areas that encompass geographically contiguous countries and subnational areas. It is expected that these sub-regional initiatives promote the advantages of geographical proximity and economic complementarity. Since border restrictions have been eased in East Asia with the end of the Cold War, political and economic reforms in socialist countries, and trade and investment liberalization among market economies, the GMS Program and similar sub-regional programs can potentially be an effective framework for narrowing the development gap in the region. This chapter considers, in particular, cooperation within the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), a region of 2.6 million km2, a population of over 255 million people, and one that is rich in natural and human resources (Krongkaew 2004). While challenges remain, GMS cooperation initiatives and its related programs can also be seen as a successful case of sub-regional cooperation. This chapter thus takes up some key questions offered in the introduction of this volume. Specifically, if “institutionalization” is the process of regularizing and harmonizing behavior among a group of sovereign actors, to what extent can we say that Mekong sub-region cooperation has contributed to new “institutions” of durable rules, expectations, and interests? What drives and constrains cooperation? How does it relate to or affect more multilateral institutionalization processes as those in ASEAN? And to what effect for regional relations and its political geography? |
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| Ending Page | 200 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 183 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315709130-20 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-03-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Institutionalizing East Asia Urban and Regional Planning Sub Regional Cooperation Initiatives Mekong Sub Region Regional Cooperation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
