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Journal of International Security Studies
on the current international order from such aspects as agenda setting, behavioral
logic, international institution, global governance and operational environment.
This emerging “development-infrastructure-security” nexus may have important
implications for China’s promotion of infrastructure building in the Belt and Road
Initiative.
[Keywords] development, security, development-security nexus, global infrastructure,
spiral layering, Belt and Road Initiative
[Author] MAO Weizhun, Associate Professor, School of International Studies,
Nanjing University；Research Fellow, Centre for Asia-Pacific Development Studies,
Nanjing University (Nanjing, 210023).

119 Regional Logic behind the Development-Security Interactive Evolution:
A Case Study of the Lower Mekong Region
CUI Tinghe, ZHENG Xianwu

[Abstract] The development-security nexus is a major issue in the field of
international security in that their interaction exerts a profound impact on the global
order and security situation, particularly in the “region”—a key dimension of
international interactions and research activities. By introducing such a key variable
as “development”, this paper intends to provide an analytical framework of
“regional development-security complex” and explore the role of developmental
regionalism in the evolution of regional security and interaction. The Lower Mekong
region is a typical case of the formation and evolution of the development-security
complex in East Asia. Through various development cooperation activities, this
regional development-security complex has evolved from its primary stage to a
relatively mature one, transforming from a “war front” dominated by security
interactions to a “business corridor” featuring harmonious advancement of both
development and security. In this process, developmental regionalism plays a key
dynamic role in bringing about changes of the regional structure and interactions at
material, institutional and cultural levels. As a result, the Lower Mekong regional
development-security complex takes on distinctive characteristics featured by a
coexistence of centrality and plurality, openness and autonomy, as well as a search
for harmony between normativity and flexibility.
[Keywords] the Lower Mekong region, development-security nexus, complex,
developmental regionalism
[Authors] CUI Tinghe, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of International Relations, Nanjing
University; ZHENG Xianwu, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of
International Relations, Nanjing University (Nanjing, 210023).

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