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Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue ina period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurringin the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrologicalcycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and representedby major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site ofgeo-economic opportunity and risk assessment. With more stakeholdersinvolved there is more market competition for access to subregional resources.This paper argues that the engendering of donor competition is creating theneed for new strategies of state-competition and solidarity with recipientstates, which have been key to Korean Official Development Assistance (ODA)in selling the development experience. This is increasingly legitimated by par-ticular forms of strategic nation-branding techniques to generate both specificSouth–South solidarity and the sharing of the development experience throughthe managing of the opportunity costs of climate change.
