Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaChinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin
Water has particular connotations, intrinsically related to a series of asymmetries over its control. It has been the subject of frequent disputes or controversies between nations and states over its domination, which the literature calls bio-politics, hydro-politics or, as we will call it here, hyd...
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FLACSO - Sede Ecuador
2021
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| author | Liz-Rivas, Lenny |
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| description | Water has particular connotations, intrinsically related to a series of asymmetries over its control. It has been the subject of frequent disputes or controversies between nations and states over its domination, which the literature calls bio-politics, hydro-politics or, as we will call it here, hydro-hegemony. The objective of the article is to identify asymmetries of power in the Mekong River Basin by China, contributing to the academic debate on China's hydro-politics strategies with its riparian neighbors. We will methodologically support this research in the state of the art on power asymmetries based on water resources, emphasizing the unequal power relations between riparian states and discussing the hypothesis of the water war with the intention of introducing basic concepts of hydropolitics to a Spanish-speaking audience. The conclusions offered by this research arrive, once the geopolitical importance of water is discussed, at unilateralist approaches by China, rejecting binding commitments when these may collide with national interests of supply and control over the water resource in the Mekong River Basin. |
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| spelling | urvio-article-47702021-07-13T03:38:21Z Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin Geopolítica hidro-hegemónica china en la cuenca del río Mekong Liz-Rivas, Lenny China geopolítica hidro-conducta hidro-hegemonía hidro-política China geopolitics hydro-behaviour hydro-hegemony hydro-politics China; Geopolítica;Hidroconduto; Hidrohegemonia; Hidropolítica Water has particular connotations, intrinsically related to a series of asymmetries over its control. It has been the subject of frequent disputes or controversies between nations and states over its domination, which the literature calls bio-politics, hydro-politics or, as we will call it here, hydro-hegemony. The objective of the article is to identify asymmetries of power in the Mekong River Basin by China, contributing to the academic debate on China's hydro-politics strategies with its riparian neighbors. We will methodologically support this research in the state of the art on power asymmetries based on water resources, emphasizing the unequal power relations between riparian states and discussing the hypothesis of the water war with the intention of introducing basic concepts of hydropolitics to a Spanish-speaking audience. The conclusions offered by this research arrive, once the geopolitical importance of water is discussed, at unilateralist approaches by China, rejecting binding commitments when these may collide with national interests of supply and control over the water resource in the Mekong River Basin. El agua tiene connotaciones particulares, intrínsecamente relacionadas con una serie de asimetrías sobre su control. Ha sido objeto frecuente de diferendos o controversias entre naciones y Estados por su dominio, que la literatura denomina bio-política o hidro-política, y que aquí denominaremos hidro-hegemonía. El objetivo del artículo es identificar asimetrías de poder en la cuenca del río Mekong por parte de China, para contribuir al debate académico sobre las estrategias hidro-políticas del país asiático hacia sus vecinos ribereños. Nos basamos en el estado del arte sobre las asimetrías de poder fundamentadas en el recurso hídrico, poniendo el acento en las relaciones desiguales de poder entre Estados ribereños y discutiendo la hipótesis de la guerra del agua. Concluimos que China rechaza compromisos vinculantes cuando estos pueden colisionar con sus interesas nacionales de abastecimiento y control sobre el recurso hídrico en la cuenca del río Mekong. FLACSO - Sede Ecuador 2021-05-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html application/zip https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4770 10.17141/urvio.30.2021.4770 URVIO. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad; No. 30 (2021): Urvio. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad (mayo-agosto); 108-120 URVIO. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad; Núm. 30 (2021): Urvio. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad (mayo-agosto); 108-120 1390-4299 1390-3691 10.17141/urvio.30.2021 spa https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4770/3721 https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4770/3722 https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4770/3777 Derechos de autor 2021 URVIO. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad |
| spellingShingle | Liz-Rivas, Lenny Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title | Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title_full | Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title_fullStr | Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title_short | Chinese Hydro-hegemonic Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin |
| title_sort | chinese hydro-hegemonic geopolitics in the mekong river basin |
| url | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4770 |