Introduction -- Explaining subregional cooperation : events, concepts and the Mekong basin -- Water cooperation, security and international regimes : an analytical framework for the GMS -- History of Mekong cooperation : from exclusion to inclusion via the China-Vietnam dichotomy -- Mekong basin...

Purpose The chapter attempts to evaluate the utility of applying multi-level governance outside of the EU, and also outside of the group of democratic states, to states that have defied the third wave of democratization and that are characterized by a so-called new authoritarianism. The case is...