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Articles by Andrea Haefner
Regulation tightens around civil society in the Mekong Region
Laos’s 2010 Decree on International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) and 2017 Decree on Non-Profit Associations (NPAs) were initially introduced under the guise of modernisation. Officials promised clearer rules, smoother approval processes and a framework for civil society’s participation in national development. But behind the bureaucratic language, these decrees have enabled a tightening of control over civic life and the use of regulation as an instrument of political power.
The State and Civil Society in Laos: Asymmetry and Symbiosis
ABSTRACT In Southeast Asia, legislation has been used to lay the groundwork for transitions towards the rule of law and to control political opponents or critics of the government. This article explores the impacts of legislative changes between 2010 and 2020 in Laos, especially the decrees on INGOs (2010) and Associations (2017). It also explains why Laos, a one-party state, introduced new laws for civil society, despite already having substantial control.
Mekong River: Turning declaration into actions
Laos hosted a four-day Mekong River Commission leadership summit and conference last week, focusing on this vital waterway for Southeast Asia. Australia has been engaged in the Mekong region for decades, including supporting the Mekong River Commission. This support has been multi-faceted through different programs and projects and was visible through Australian representation in Vientiane during the summit. This was the fourth MRC summit, the last held five years ago in 2018.
Sunk! France cries outrage over snubbed subs
The French word déception means disappointment rather than deception, making it one of the infamous “false friends” the French language abounds in for English speakers trying to learn it. But when Naval Group, the French company that just lost what has been described in France as “the contract of the century” for 12 Attack Class submarines, declared in a statement to the French press that this was “une grande déception,” the false meaning may, for once, have been the real one.
The Mekong River Is Becoming a Geopolitical Hotspot
Geopolitics November 9, 2020 Andrea Haefner Lecturer at The Griffith Asia Institute Construction of a dam in Stung Treng, Cambodia, on the Mekong basin. The Mekong has become a focal point for different power players competing for influence amid the U.S.-China rivalry.
Duelling Diplomacy Over Southeast Asia’s Most Important River
By Andrea Haefner The Mekong, Southeast Asia’s most important river, has for millennia supported the rise and fall of empires and is responsible for the livelihood of over 65 million people who live directly on its riverbanks, relying on the river for food, accommodation, and employment. The river hosts a unique and significant ecological system, with some of the world’s highest diversity of fish and snails.
Governance of the water-energy-food nexus: insights from four infrastructure projects in the Lower Mekong Basin
Abstract The social relations and biophysical flows that link water, food, and energy systems are said to form a ‘nexus’. Efforts to steer or otherwise exert influence on decisions that impact upon these nexus links, including to ignore them, take place at multiple levels, vary in complexity, and have implications for who benefits and who is burdened by those relations and flows.
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