Lexington Books
Pages: 256
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-6817-2 • Hardback • December 2011 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7391-8813-2 • Paperback • October 2013 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-7084-7 • eBook • December 2011 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi is professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.
List of contributors: Brittany Brannon; Pia Malhotra-Arora; J. Henry Owusu; Sanghamitra Patnaik; Sheila Rai; Hillery L. Roach; Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi; Teagan E. Ward; Paul A. Williams
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction, by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Chapter Two: Euphrates and Tigris Waters – Turco-Syrian and Iraqi Relations, by Paul Williams
Chapter Three: Hydropolitics and Water Security in the Nile and Jordan River Basins, by Teagan Ward and Hillery L. Roach
Chapter Four: Water Disputes in South Asia, by Sheila Rai and Sanghamitra Patnaik
Chapter Five: Sino-Indian Water Wars?, by Pia Malhotra-Arora
Chapter Six: Conflict and Cooperation: The Aral Sea Basin, by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Brittany Brannon
Chapter Seven: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Riparian Countries of the Valta River Basin in West Africa, by J. Henry Owusu
Chapter Eight: Conclusion, by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Top scholars, selected internationally, share their opinions on this uniquely global issue by providing outstanding analysis of transboundary water resources conflicts, and suggest ways for minimizing disputes. The contributors offer imaginative perspectives and approaches, and open up an intellectual space for clear, candid, and authoritative discussion on the process of equitable sharing of such vital resources.
— O.P. Dwivedi, University of Guelph, Canada
Vajpeyi and his collaborators went to some of the very places where civilization began—the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, and the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra river basins—to illustrate and analyze how this indispensable resource can affect national security and decide questions of war and peace. This timely and trailblazing compendium is destined to become a significant point of reference on a subject certain to bedevil our planet in the days to come.
— Constantine P. Danopoulos, San Jose State University
This collection is unique in providing an important perspective on a resource without which mankind cannot exist. The six regional cases and theoretical frameworks on water will stand the test of time to become a seminal work and a set text for many courses. The substantive research and findings have no equal and stand no challenge for their excellence.
— Glen Segell