Annotated Bibliography on the Mekong

The Mekong is the focus of wide-ranging debates over development strategy, governance, legal issues, and environmental management. In recent years the river and its surroundings have become a "development corridor" and a framework for thinking about trade, investment, energy, transportation, and telecommunication within a perspective broader than the nation-state. This bibliography is a contribution to understanding the Mekong in its new setting as a subregion. It concentrates on works published since 1950 that have a geographical spread or conceptual framework that transcends national concerns. The focus is not on individual member countries as such but on their role as part of the Mekong subregion.