Will tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts? Addressing this question, the book shows that these concerns are more prominent due to the locations and underlying political dynamics of some of these large rivers and the strategic interests of major powers.
Will tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts? Addressing this question, the book shows that these concerns are more prominent due to the locations and underlying political dynamics of some of these large rivers and the strategic interests of major powers.
Anoulak Kittikhoun is a political scientist, strategist and planner who has worked for a national government, a think tank, the United Nations, and a major river basin organization. As chief strategy and partnership officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat, he leads the organization's work on strategic planning and policy, international cooperation, communication and stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational development. Susanne Schmeier is an expert on the legal and institutional dimensions of natural resources governance, with a particular focus on shared water resources. She works for IHE Delft - Institute for Water Education, where her work focuses on research, capacity development and advisory services relating to conflict and cooperation over shared natural resources, international environmental and water law and water governance. Prior to joining IHE Delft, she worked for various international organization and national governments. She has published extensively on shared water resources governance and in particular river basin organizations.
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Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water diplomacy and conflict management? 1. The legal role and context of river basin organizations 2. Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the Great Lakes Basin 3. Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United States-Mexico border 4. Process aspects of the development of shared waters agreements: The Columbia River Treaty 5. International river basin organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal international river basins: Past, present, and future 6. The Niger Basin: Is development raising the stakes of cooperation? 7. Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin: The key role of the Nile Basin Initiative over the past 20 years 8. Managing abundance: CICOS and the Congo 9. Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization: A case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine 10. Water diplomacy in the Helmand River Basin: Exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the shadow of anarchy 11. Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea 12. The Mekong River Commission as a water diplomat 13. China in international institutions for water governance 14. Managing disagreements in European basins: What role for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? 15. Conclusion: Managing tensions and sharing benefits-international rivers in conflict and cooperation
Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water diplomacy and conflict management? 1. The legal role and context of river basin organizations 2. Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the Great Lakes Basin 3. Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United States-Mexico border 4. Process aspects of the development of shared waters agreements: The Columbia River Treaty 5. International river basin organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal international river basins: Past, present, and future 6. The Niger Basin: Is development raising the stakes of cooperation? 7. Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin: The key role of the Nile Basin Initiative over the past 20 years 8. Managing abundance: CICOS and the Congo 9. Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization: A case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine 10. Water diplomacy in the Helmand River Basin: Exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the shadow of anarchy 11. Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea 12. The Mekong River Commission as a water diplomat 13. China in international institutions for water governance 14. Managing disagreements in European basins: What role for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? 15. Conclusion: Managing tensions and sharing benefits-international rivers in conflict and cooperation
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