Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue in a period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurring in the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrological cycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and represented by major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site of geo‐economic opportunity and risk assessment. With more stakeholders involved there is more market competition for access to subregional resources. This paper argues that the engendering of donor competition is creating the need for new strategies of state‐competition and solidarity with recipient states, which have been key to Korean Official Development Assistance (ODA) in selling the development experience. This is increasingly legitimated by particular forms of strategic nation‐branding techniques to generate both specific South–South solidarity and the sharing of the development experience through the managing of the opportunity costs of climate change.

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湄公河次区域的水安全，河岸身份和朝鲜民族品牌

在跨界问题日益相互依存的时期，环境安全历来被视为低政治问题。这是在霸权和水文循环之间区域收敛的背景下发生的。湄公河次区域空间正在建设中，主要的捐助者和受援者利益攸关方代表着该地区，这是一个潜在且经过验证的地缘经济机会和风险评估场所。随着更多利益攸关方的参与，获取次区域资源的市场竞争越来越激烈。本文认为，捐助者竞争的兴起导致对国家竞争和与受援国团结的新战略的需求，这是韩国官方发展援助（ODA）出售发展经验的关键。