China’s performance in international resource politics: Lessons from the Mekong

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-120

  Menniken, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASEAN; China; Environmental politics; GMS; Hydropolitics; International relations; Mekong; MRC; Regime theory; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055361072     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/cs29-1e     Document Type: Article

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