International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities

International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities
Edited by Nevelina I. Pachova, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Libor Jansky
ISBN 978-92-808-1150-6
308 pages; paper; US$35.00
March 2008
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National sovereignty and security considerations have long constrained the reasonable, equitable and sustainable utilization of international water courses. With post-Cold War democratization and globalization on the rise, domestic actors have an increasingly important role to play in national decision-making and traditional foreign policy debates. This volume presents case studies that analyze the multi-faceted and dynamic nature of the interplay between domestic and international water security.

Table of contents

Introduction:From domestic to international water security, Libor Jansky, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Nevelina I. Pachova

Part I: Treaties and institutions

* The Indus Water Dispute-Relations with domestic policies, Shuntaro Yamamoto
* Domestic issues of developing the water resources in a landlocked and water abundant state: Linkages of domestic security and basin security, Naho Mirumachi
* Domestic drivers of international water security in the Danube, Nevelina I. Pachova and Libor Jansky
* Transboundary cooperation vs. internal ambitions: The role of China and Cambodia in the Mekong Region, Marko Keskinen, Katri Mehtonen and Olli Varis
* The role of domestic security in the functioning of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, Virpi Stucki and Madiodio Niasse

Part II: Emerging security threats

* People’s encroachment onto Sudan’s Nile banks and its impact on Egypt, Mahmoud El Zain
* Inter-basin water transfers as technico-political option. Thai-Birman projects on the Salween River, Bastien Affeltranger
* Implications of domestic security policy upon international water issues in a virtual and real water context-Aral Sea and Mekong River Basins, Mikiyasu Nakayama

Part III: Opportunities for cooperation

* Water governance of the Mekong River Basin and Chinese economic development, Kayo Onishi
* Transboundary water issues in the Euphrates-Tiger River Basin: Some methodological approaches and opportunities for cooperation, Aysegül Kibaroglu, Anthi D. Brouma and Mete Erdem
* The politics of security in the Okavango River Basin: From civil war to saving wetlands (1975-2002). A preliminary security impact analysis, Jeroen F. Warner and Richard Meissner

Conclusion

* National sovereignty and human security. Changing realities and concepts in international water management, Nevelina I. Pachova, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Libor Jansky