The struggles of poor communities to negotiate development processes have been
documented increasingly in recent years. However, recognition of the agency of the poor …

significance of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater
Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China's …

A study of the Shan rebellion which broke out in the northern Siamese town of Phrae in July
1902 and continued until May 1904 serves as the basis for an exploration of the interaction …

In 1994 and early 1995 I lived on the Mekong River border dividing Thailand and Laos. My
base was the northern Thai trading town of Chiang Khong which was experiencing a boom …

This article argues that power politics and the contending institutional contestation are key to
understanding Mekong's complex dynamics. It is structured in four main parts. The first …

History is rife with conflicts between indigenous peoples and outsider groups. These
confrontations have a timeless and often tragic quality. They are revealing because they …

There is little awareness, and even less systematic study, of the shift by local NGOs in
developing countries from supporting small-scale community development towards …

M any borderlands in Southeast Asia—in southern Thailand, East Timor, Papua New
Guinea, Sulawesi, Aceh, southern Philippines, Myanmar—have become violent. In the …

Security should mean freedom from the fear of direct and indirect physical harm, defined in
military, criminal, political and economic terms. This chapter differs from these conventional …

When I prepared the title and the abstract for this paper in mid-September last year I had no
idea that, within days, the three-time elected Thaksin government would be overthrown by a …