Trends of Vietnam Policy towards Mekong River Basin Regulation (2016-2025)
Description
Data contains list of sources on main activities of Vietnam towards Mekong River basin regulation with some characteristics and frames highlighted throughout the analysis of such sources. All data is presented in Russian. The Data was gathered using monitoring system with accessibility to newspaper sources containing official statements and quotes from the Vietnam government and leadership regarding the Mekong water management issue. The sources were selected on the basis of relation to Vietnam's foreign policy and accessibility of the resource in the monitoring system. Sources were found using specific key-words (Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mekong), later manually excluding all non-relevant news and events. The mechanism of key-words search is applicable in most of the media-monitoring systems, thus can be used in various ways. Timeframe of the research was selected based on the key focal points of Mekong basin regulation policy development - in 2016 the record drought on Mekong was registered, which posed a question for necessity of whole subregion or inter-state water management, thus prompting Vietnam to intensify its diplomatic efforts in the selected field. 2025 is the nearest completed year, providing the most actual and comprehensive dataset on the topic. Concerning the dataset content, the "практические соглашения" activity regards any treaty, deal, strategic outline or document, officially announced by Vietnam government on the water regulation issue, "практические предложения" are the proposition, made by Vietnam or with Vietnam. "Углубление сотрудничества" is any official statement made by Vietnam on changing or setting up a partnership on water management, whilst the "комментарии по событиям..." are any non-concrete statements, which could not be categorized into aforenamed three groups. Frames in the dataset are identified based on the main and most repetitive key words and semantic categories on the water management in the selected official statements. All frames are could be identified either by direct translation of the frame from Russian to English or any other language (in the given order: sustainable water management, deepening of partnership, benefit/vitality for region, sustainable development, effective water management, water security, negative/worsening environmental impact, evaluation/"state" of water management, vitality/necessity of water management regulation, cross-border/transboundary cooperation/management, free water management, equal water management, reasonable water management), or by relevant and semantically similar/identical collocations. Each frame's availability was also found either by a direct citation in the source's text or by finding a semantically similar collocation in the selected texts.