Research on cross-border economic regional cooperation through the lens of historical evolution:A case of international cooperation in Tumen River sub-region
Specific path dependence occurs in the research of cross-border economic coopera-tion.Most of the existing studies are based on the current situation of collaboration and a certain period,while the studies on medium and long periods are relatively few.This paper took the pro-cess of international cooperation and development of the Tumen River sub-region as an example,constructed an analysis framework of the evolution mechanism of cross-border economic region-al cooperation based on geography multi-scale thought,and discussed the essential characteris-tics and changing factors for international collaboration of Tumen River sub-region in each his-torical stage.The results show that:The international cooperation of the Tumen River sub-re-gion has gone through four stages in the past 30 years:the development stage(1984-1992),the development boom period(1993-1996),the slowdown period(1997-2004)and the development restart period(2005-present).Besides,the cross-border economic cooperation in each stage of Tumen River sub-regional international cooperation begins based on the last round of material practice space,which has apparent historical inheritance and policy innovation in different stag-es.The impact is on cross-border regional infrastructure construction and urbanization develop-ment.The role of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)in sub-regional devel-opment is weakening,the leading role at the national level beefs up,the participation of provinc-es and local governments is increasing,and their integration with the regional development strat-egy is becoming increasingly close in the whole process under the general trend that political consultation and economic cooperation have become the global geopolitical environment chang-es.This paper helps in solvig the dilemma of international cooperation in the Tumen River sub-region and enriching the theoretical research on cross-border cooperation of human geography.
historical evolutioncross-border economic cooperationTumen River sub-regionNortheast AsiaHunchun
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