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 …

The Legend of the Golden Boat provides a new approach to the study of Southeast Asia's
northern borderlands. Based on extensive travel in the upper Mekong hinterland, it is a …

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 …

Abstract The Indochina Peninsula was engaged in warfare and conflict for many years.
Border areas became fierce battlefields and defense frontlines, where logistic lines were laid …

The political and economic functions of border areas in Myanmar have changed since the
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) 1 adopted an open-door policy in 1988 …

Abstract The Economic Quadrangle has become a popular motif in discussions of Southeast
Asia's northern borderlands. For its proponents in international development organizations …

Since the inauguration of the meeting attended by the ministers of Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, along with the representative of Yunnan Province, in …

The growing integration of economies and societies around the world, as manifested by free
trade agreements and free trade areas, is a complex process that affects many aspects of …

My dissertation examines the making of the Mekong region as an object of development. It
makes three central arguments: One, that the region is not simply a given space of unity, but …

Ever since the former Thai prime minister, Chatichai Choonhavan, made his famous
battlefield to markets speech in 1989, a common refrain in respect of the Greater Mekong …