Why states cooperate over shared water:The water negotiations in the Jordan River Basin

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Title :

Why states cooperate over shared water: The water negotiations in the Jordan River Basin

Author :

Anders Jägerskog

Type :

Research thesis for the Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University,Sweden

Date :

September 2003

ISBN/ISSN :

ISBN 91-7373-749-6 ISSN 0282-9800


Description :

The aim of this study is to analyse why and under what conditions cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and Jordan has taken place and how it has functioned in the water sector. The study focuses on the water aspects of the respective peace negotiations as well as the implementation of what has been agreed upon. It therefore moves beyond the existing material which states that transboundary water cooperation does occur – material which is ample in a quantitative sense – by exploring why cooperation has occurred in the Jordan River Basin.

This study is centred on foreign policy decision making in a situation of resource scarcity. The specific instance is the water problématique,one of the central questions in the peace process in the Middle East.




See also:

Water and Conflict in the Middle East

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