Horizon 1 1 17 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES Society and Natural Resources 572-586 government bureaucracy international donors Mekong spatial linkages transboundary water governance 2012 fdi:010055914 ENG Society and Natural Resources 0894-1920 ISI:000304064100004 6 10.1080/08941920.2011.604398 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010055914 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2012/06/010055914.pdf 25 Horizon (IRD) This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processes reflects how international donors and member country representatives obscure potential conflict/tension in transboundary water governance in the Mekong. From a scholarly perspective, it questions academic approaches that assume that the state is the sole or primary actor in international relations. 098 ; 062 Laos