Beyond the Mekong: Regional Experience and Institution-Building in River Basin Governance
Cross-border river governance is a classic regional cooperation problem: misaligned upstream and downstream interests, insufficient data sharing and fragmented institutions. This article compares governance experience in Asia’s main basins and discusses the conditions for water diplomacy to move from crisis response to institutionalisation.
Cross-border Community Oral History Programme: connecting regional experience through local memory
Communities on both sides of a border share history and livelihoods, yet are often divided by national narratives. This programme works with local institutions to collect cross-border oral histories and bring experiences missed by mainstream records into the regional knowledge base.
How Regional Institutions Respond to Cross-Border Disasters: Comparative Observations from Southeast Asian Cases (research note)
Cross-border disaster governance has long been treated as a “low politics” entry point for regional cooperation. This case note compares how mechanisms were invoked and coordination stalled in several Southeast Asian cross-border disaster responses, and draws testable hypotheses.
Climate Adaptation Policy and Urban Resilience Cases (demo)
Using urban resilience as an entry point to show the policy links between climate risk, public budgets and social mobilisation. This entry is sample content and does not represent the Institute’s formal position.
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