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1 Beaumont, P. 1994. The myth of water wars and the future of irrigated agriculture in the Middle East. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 10(1):9-21.
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Recent papers have claimed that in the Middle East the pressure on available water resources might result in hostilities between certain states. This paper argues that such wars are unlikely given that most water in the region is being used, mostly inefficiently, for irrigation purposes. It is claimed that the water problems of most countries could be solved by diverting a relatively small amount of water from irrigation to higher value urban/industrial uses. Food production would suffer somewhat but the richer countries could make good these losses by purchases on the world market. Inevitably, irrigated agriculture in the Middle East must contract as growing populations demand more water for their needs.
2 Biswas, A. K. (Ed.) 1994. International waters of the Middle East: from Euphrates-Tigris to Nile. Bombay, India: Oxford University Press (OUP) xvii, 221p. (Water resources management series 2)
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3 Wolf, A. T. 1994. A hydropolitical history of the Nile, Jordan and Euphrates River Basins. In Biswas, A. K. (Ed.), International waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile. Bombay, India: OUP. pp.5-43.
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4 Kolars, J. 1994. Problems of international river management: The case of the Euphrates. In Biswas, A. K. (Ed.), International waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile. Bombay, India: OUP. pp.44-94.
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5 Al-Jayyousi, O.; Abu-Lebdeh, G. 1993. Evaluating potential water conflict along the Euphrates River: Strategies for cooperation. In Stout, G. E.; Al-Weshah, R. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Water Resources in the Middle East: Policy and institutional aspects, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, October 24-27, 1993. Urbana, IL, USA: IWRA. pp.84-91.
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6 Gruen, G. E. 1993. Recent negotiations over the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris. In Stout, G. E.; Al-Weshah, R. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Water Resources in the Middle East: Policy and institutional aspects, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, October 24-27, 1993. Urbana, IL, USA: IWRA. pp.100-107.
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7 Just, R. E.; Horowitz, J. K.; Netanyahu, S. 1997. Peace and prospects for international water projects in the Jordan-Yarmouk River Basin. In Parker, D. D.; Tsur, Y. (Eds.), Decentralization and coordination of water resource management. Norwell, MA, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp.365-387.
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8 Brooks, D. B. 1997. Between the great rivers: Water in the heart of the Middle East. International Journal of Water Resources Development, In Rached, E.; Rathgeber, E.; Brooks, D. (Eds.), Water management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Ottawa, Canada: IDRC. 13(3):291-309; pp.73-94.
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9 Altinbilek, H. D. 1997. Water and land resources development in southeastern Turkey. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 13(3):311-332.
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10 Ünver, I. H. O. 1997. Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) International Journal of Water Resources Development, 13(4):453-483.
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11 Kolars, J. F. 1997. River advocacy and return flow management on the Euphrates/Firat River. Water International, 22(1):49-53.
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12 Schiffler, M. 1997. International water allocation in the Middle East. In Richter, J.; Wolff, P.; Franzen, H.; Heim, F. (Eds.), Strategies for intersectoral water management in developing countries - Challenges and consequences for agriculture: Proceedings of the International Workshop held from 6th -10th May 1996 in Berlin, Germany. Feldafing, Germany: Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung, Zentralstelle für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft. pp.166-186.
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13 Ohlsson, L. (Ed.) 1995. Hydropolitics: Conflicts over water as a development constraint. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. 230p.
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15 Allan, T. 2000. The Middle East water question: Hydropolitics and the global economy. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. xviii, 382p.
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16 Murakami, M. 1995. Managing water for peace in the Middle East: alternative strategies. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press. x, 309p.
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17 Pech, S. 2008. Implementing cooperative transboundary water management. In Sadoff, Claudia; Greiber, T.; Smith, M.; Bergkamp, G. (Eds.). Share: managing water across boundaries. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) pp.81-88.
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18 McCaffrey, S. C.; Neville, K. J. 2010. The politics of sharing water: international law, sovereignty, and transboundary rivers and aquifers. In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.18-44.
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The relevance of the main instruments of international water law to the hydraulic development projects of later-developing upstream states is explored, for a non-legal audience. Relevance is gauged by querying common misperceptions, checking the compatibility of the instruments, and considering their effect along the Nile, Jordan and Tigris Rivers and associated aquifers. Specific principles of international water law are found to support upstream development in theory, though its relevance is threatened by incompatibility of clauses between the instruments, the erosion of norm-building processes, and a shift away from the idea that territorial sovereignty over a fluid resource should be limited.
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This paper serves international water con ict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active through sociopolitical processes either of compliance or of contest of the arrangement, most transboundary water interaction is found to contain elements of both. The role of power asymmetry is interpreted through classi cation of intervention strategies that seek to either in uence or challenge the arrangements. Coexisting contest and compliance serve to explain in part the stasis on the Jordan and Ganges rivers (where the non-hegemons have in effect consented to the arrangement), as well as the changes on the Tigris and Mekong rivers, and even more rapid changes on the Amu Darya and Nile rivers (where the non-hegemons have confronted power asymmetry through in uence and challenge). The framework also stresses how transboundary water events that may appear isolated are more accurately read within the many sociopolitical processes and arrangements they are shaped by. By clarifying the typically murky dynamics of interstate relations over transboundary waters, furthermore, the framework exposes a new suite of entry points for hydro-diplomatic initiatives.
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