Bounding the Mekong – The Asian Development Bank, China, and Thailand Kruspe
Bounding the MekongThe Asian Development Bank, China, and Thailand\nAuthor(s): Nicole Kruspe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824834449, 978-0824834449\nSynopsis\nTransnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asias formerly socialist states, and Thailand into a regional project called the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But while the GMS project is in fact hastening regional economic integration, Jim Glassman shows that the approach belies the ADBs idealized description of \""win-win\"" outcomes. The process of \""actually existing globalization\"" in the GMS does p.
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