The production and trafficking of illicit drugs has always been an important nontraditional security threat to the Lancang-Mekong subregion.The subregional countries started their cooperation to tackle this issue from thirty years ago and have constructed three multilateral insti-tutions led by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC),ASEAN,and China respectively,known as the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control(MOU),ASEAN and China Cooperative Operations in Response to Dangerous Drugs(ACCORD),and Lancing-Mekong Law En-forcement Cooperation.However,in the past decade,these institutions have experienced difficulties in maintaining their momentum for deepening and development and failed to deter the expansion of drug crimes in the subregion.This is partly due to the"old"structural factors characterized by the regional countries'diverged perception of interests in containing drug crimes and their unbalanced distribution of power;and partly related to the rising new drug situations in-cluding the thriving of synthetic drugs,the expansion of trans-national drug syndicates,the change of trafficking routes,and the shift of transaction methods.Therefore,this paper suggests that the subregional cooperation on fighting against il-licit drugs should adopt a new mode of drug governance,which takes advantage of multiple players,works from aspects including law enforcement,public health and social economic development,and explores new direction of cooperation aiming to not just hunt for drug traffickers and dealers but also drug lords behind the scene.
anti-drug cooperationMOUACCORDLancang-Mekong Law Enforcement Cooperationdrug gov-ernance
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