South–South Cooperation and the Promise of Experimentalist Governance: The ASEAN Smart Cities Network

This article considers the impact that increasing pragmatism and pluralism are having on South–South cooperation (SSC). Focusing growing sway of multilateral platforms for between cities reinvigoration regionalism, it identifies experimentalist design principles fostering autonomy-enhancing initiatives developing countries have capacity to learn from scale up locally-informed, adaptive problem solving. The first part frames SSC in light governance theory. second provides a case study Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Smart Cities Network, an initiative captures promise challenges enhancing through regional city-to-city partnerships.