Jörn Dosch; Colin Dürkop (Editors), et al: These 14 referenced papers are selected from those given at the 2004 Hanoi Conference which brought together academics and practitioners from the Greater Mekong Subregion and from concerned institutions in Germany and UK. The pattern and potential of actual and envisaged cooperative actions of the six GMS states are explored. Much often-inaccessible data relating to the GMS with its 245 million population and 2.3 million km² area is made available.