CONTENTS 



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I. Introduction 1 365 



Regionalism as a System for the Application of Science and 



Technology 365 



The Timing of the Johns Hopkins Speech 366 



Regional Development Proposal in the Johns Hopkins Speech __ 366 



Diplomatic Environment of the Johns Hopkins Speech 367 



Diplomatic and Political Reactions to the Speech 368 



Some Possible Longer-Range Consequences of the Mekong 



Concept 370 



II. Varieties of National and International Regionalism 372 



Regional Development in the United States 373 



Early Proposals for International Regional Development 374 



Forms of International Regionalism 376 



III. Evolution of the Program To Develop the Region of the Lower 



Mekong Basin 380 



Adoption of the Regionalism Principle into the United Nations 



System 380 



Geography of the Lower Mekong Basin Region 382 



Complex Social and Cultural Patterns of the Basin 384 



Early Planning for Development of the Mekong, 1952-1957 385 



Socio-Economic Research Planning: The Ford Foundation Study. 388 



Action Programs on the Mekong, 1962-1965 389 



Status of the Mekong Project in the Spring of 1965 390 



IV. Accelerated Progress in 1965 395 



President Johnson's Contacts With Regionalism 395 



Relationship of U.S. -Vietnamese War Goals to Regionalism 398 



U.S. Measures To Raise the Tempo of Mekong Development 400 



The Nam Ngum Dam.. r 401 



The Asian Development Bank 402 



The Pa Mong Dam Project 404 



Infrastructure for the Mekong Project 406 



Status of the Mekong Project at the Close of 1965 408 



V. Slump and Recovery: The Mekong Project, 1966-1971 409 



Postwar Planning in Vietnam: The Thuc-Lilienthal Report 410 



Action on the Large Main Stem Projects 413 



Status of the Mekong Project, Beginning of 1972 414 



Environmental Quality and Regional Development of the Me- 

 kong 418 



The Nixon Doctrine and Asian Regionalism : Security Plus Devel- 

 opment 420 



Regionalism for National Security and Economic Development.. 421 



VI. Issues, Problems, and Opportunities Offered by World Regionalism __ 425 



Southeast Asia as a Regional Security Bloc 425 



Regional Development as an Instrument of Foreign Aid 427 



Global Regionalism as a Long-Range Means Toward U.S. Diplo- 

 matic Goals 430 



Appendix: Comments by Eugene R. Black on Topics Relating to This 



Study 433 



TABLES 



1. Mekong Project: Operational Resources as of January 11, 1965 391 



2. Comparison — Large Dams and Hydroelectric Plants 405 



3. U.S. Military Forces in Vietnam 409 



4. Mekong Project, Operational Resources as of December 31, 1971 416 



5. Mekong Tributary Projects: January 1972 417 



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