Transnational Dynamics in Southeast Asia : : The Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits Economic Corridors / / ed. by Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane, Christian Taillard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Anuar, Abdul Rahim,; Banomyong, Ruth,; Bouté, Vanina,; Charras, Muriel,; Colin, Sébastien,; Farhat, Amel,; Fau, Nathalie,; Franck, Manuelle,; Grillot, Caroline,; Khalid, Nazery,; Khonthapane, Sirivanh,; Lainé, Elsa-Xuan,; Mellac, Marie,; Mustafa, Muszafarshah Mohd,; Pholsena, Vatthana,; Sisouphanthong, Bounthavy,; Taillard, Christian,; Tan, Danielle,; Vignat, Ella,
• HerausgeberIn: Fau, Nathalie,; Khonthapane, Sirivanh,; Taillard, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (547 p.)

Since the 1990s, regional organizations of the United Nations and international financial institutions have adopted a new dynamic of transnational integration, within the framework of the regionalization process of globalization. In place of the growth triangles of the 1970s, a strategy based on transnational economic corridors has changed the scale of regionalization. Thanks to the initiative of the Asian Development Bank, Southeast Asia provides two of the most advanced examples of such a process in East Asia with, on the one hand, the Greater Mekong Subregion, structured by continental corridors, and on the other, the Malacca Straits, combining maritime and land corridors. This book compares, after two decades, the effects of these developing networks on transnational integration in both subregions. After presenting the general issue of economic corridors, the work deals with the characteristics and structures peculiar to these two regions, followed by a study of national strategies mobilizing actors at different levels of state organization. There follows a study of the emergence of new urban nodes on corridors at land and sea borders, and the impact of these corridors on the local societies. This approach makes it possible to compare the effects of transnational integration processes on the spatial and urban organization of the two subregions and on the increasing diversity of the stakeholders involved.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- PART I. Transnational Integrati on Processes in Southeast Asia -- 1. Definitions and Problematics of Transnational Dynamics -- 2. The Continental Grid of Economic Corridors in the Greater Mekong Subregion Towards Transnational Integration -- 3. Maritime Corridors, Port System and Spatial Organization in the Malacca Straits -- 4. Comparing Corridor Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle -- PART II. National policies related to regional Integration -- 5. The Participation of Yunnan Province in the GMS -- 6. Vietnam, an Opening under Control, Lào Cai on the Kunming-Haiphong Economic Corridor -- 7. Integration of Greater Mekong Subregion Corridors within Lao Planning, on National and Regional Scales -- 8. Shan State in Myanmar’s Problematic Nation-building and 191 Regional Integration -- 9. Sumatra Transnational Prospect beyond Indonesian Integration -- 10. Dry Ports Policy and the Economic Integration Process on the Western Corridor of Peninsular Malaysia -- PART III. New Nodes of Economic Corridors -- 11. Twin Cities and Urban Pairs, A New Level in Urban Hierarchies Structuring Transnational Corridors? -- 12. The Re-emergence of Ipoh City -- 13. Danok-Bukit Kayu Hitam, Twin Border Towns on the Thailand-Malaysia’s Border -- 14. Mukdahan and Savannakhet, Internationalization Process of Twin Mekong Border Cities on the East-West Economic Corridor -- 15. Private Commitment -- PART IV. Impacts of Economic Corridors on Laotian Border Societies -- 16. There is More to Road -- 17. Population’s Mobility in Northern Laotian Transborder Areas -- 18. Chinese Networks, Economic and Territorial Redefinitions in Northern Lao PDR -- Conclusion -- 19. Corridors and Cities -- 20. Supranational, National and Local Stakeholders in the Transnational Integration Process in Southeast Asia -- Index