GOVERNING INTERNATIONAL RIVERS: POLYCENTRIC POLITICS IN THE MEKONG AND THE RHINE

Book ID/图书代码： 04289514B76322

English Summary/英文概要： This important book employs the theory of polycentricity, a system with several centres as an analytical concept to explain the multilayered international environmental governance of river basins. It introduces a new methodological framework to deconstruct and investigate the dynamics of citizens, states and non-state actors in world politics via the context of river basin governance. The methodology is tested through in-depth field-based case studies, illustrating how local citizens and industries in the Mekong and Rhine river basins participate in transnational environmental governance at both local and international levels. Tun Myint expertly presents both a methodology and theory to conceive polycentricity of world politics as a major intellectual milestone in theorizing world politics. Providing nuanced details of cases showing the challenges and feasibilities of incorporating multiple actors into a governance framework, the book provides careful analysis into the power of non-state actors. This book will prove insightful for scholars and postgraduate students in international relations, international development, global environmental governance, and international business administration. It will also prove an invaluable resource for practitioners and policymakers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本重要的书采用多中心理论，用一个多中心制度作为解释流域的多层国际环境治理的概念性分析。本书介绍了一种新的方法框架来解构和探讨公民的动力，以及在流域治理背景下的世界政治中的国家和非国家行为。该方法深入考查实地案例研究，解释了在湄公河和莱茵河流域的当地公民和行业如何参与国内和国际层次的环境治理。图恩•迈因特巧妙地提出了一个方法论和理论来构想世界政治多中心理论是世界政治的一个重大里程碑。本书提供了细致入微的细节情况，展示了将多个行为融入治理框架中的挑战和可行性，并针对非国家行为体的权力提供了细致的分析。对于学者和国际关系，国际发展，全球环境治理和国际企业管理专业的研究生们来说，这本书将被证明是非常富有洞察力的。它也将被证明是从业者和决策者的宝贵资源。（LNL）

Awards/获奖情况：”利用对国家和非国家行为体之间的相互作用的深奥微妙的理解，图恩•迈因特对莱茵河和湄公河流域的治理系统的演化提出了一个令人信服的解释。在这个过程中，他不仅增加了我们在国际层面上的水管理方面的知识，也加深了我们对非国家行为体在国际环境治理中发挥的各种角色的欣赏。“——奥兰•扬，加利福尼亚大学，圣塔巴巴拉

“对伟大的河流系统的比较研究和其监管政治是罕见的。目前，我们队这一历史的深度，精炼彻底的分析，对局部细节和以及可能取得突破性进展的意外事件的关注更加罕见。图恩•迈因特对莱茵河和湄公河的研究会激发和活跃今后对河流和环境政治的研究。”——杰姆斯•C.史葛，美国耶鲁大学

”学者和水治理从业人员的必读书籍，它解决了非国家行为体和当地公民在国际水治理领域尚未开发的作用。这本书通过提供多中心理论的一个鼓舞人心的精炼，填补了这方面的知识空白。证据隐藏在优秀的书写的和吸引人的应对莱茵河的国际清理和湄公河流域的帕穆水坝的建设的深入的案例研究中。”——卡乐•戴普润科，乌特列支大学，荷兰

“所有对国际水管理挑战感兴趣的人都应该读读这本对莱茵河和湄公河流域的水治理的杰出分析。”——托马斯•伯诺尔，瑞士联邦理工学院（ETH），苏黎世，瑞士

’Employing a sophisticated understanding of the interplay between states and nonstate actors, Tun Myint develops a convincing account of the evolution of governance systems for the Rhine and Mekong river basins. In the process, he not only adds to our knowledge of water management at the international level but also deepens our appreciation of the various roles that nonstate actors play in international environmental governance.’ - Oran Young, University of California, Santa Barbara, US ’Comparative studies of great river systems and the politics of their regulation are rare. Far rarer still are comparisons of this historical depth, analytical sophistication, attention to local detail and to the contingencies that make breakthroughs possible. Tun Myint’s study of the Rhine and Mekong will inspire and inform future studies of both river and environmental politics.’ - James C. Scott, Yale University, US ’This is a must read for scholars and water governance practitioners as it addresses the underexploited role of non-state actors and local citizens in the field of international water governance. The book fills in this knowledge gap by offering an inspiring refinement of the theory of polycentricity. Evidence is found by well written and attractive in depth case studies dealing with the international clean up of the Rhine and the construction of the Pak Mun Dam in the Mekong basin.’ - Carel Dieperink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ’This superb analysis of water governance in the Rhine and Mekong river basins should be read by everyone interested in the challenges of international water management.’ - Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

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