Mekong governance: State officials at the margins of empire

该项目旨在为一个持续冲突、混乱和国际竞争的地区带来历史视角。在19世纪末和20世纪初，英国、法国和暹罗帝国主义列强向湄公河上游派遣了官员。这个项目将探讨他们的跨帝国互动如何创造了一个混合和妥协的治理区域，模糊了缅甸，印度支那和暹罗之间的政治界限。它旨在展示帝国边缘的官员如何制造了该地区当代的一些治理挑战。该项目可以影响促进该区域发展和稳定的政策和方案。

This project aims to bring a historical perspective to a zone of ongoing conflict, disorder and international competition. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British, French and Siamese imperial powers posted officials to the upper Mekong. This project will explore how their cross-empire interaction created a zone of hybrid and compromised governance which blurred the political demarcation between Burma, Indochina and Siam. It aims to show how officials at the margins of empire created some of the region’s contemporary governance challenges. The project could influence policies and programmes that promote development and stability in the region.