Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts: Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions

‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. Based on this theoretical frame, the book applies the ideas and tools from complexity science, contingency and enabling conditions to account for events in the formulation of treaties/agreements between disputing riparian states in river basins across the world (Indus, Jordan, Nile, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Colorado, Danube, Senegal and Zayandehrud). It also includes a section with scholars’ reflections on the relevance and weakness of the theoretical framework.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Foreword
pp ix-x
- By Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Prologue
pp xi-xxiv
- By Enamul Choudhury, professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University, Ohio., Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, United States
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Part I - The Conceptual Argument of the Book and a Case Illustration
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Chapter One - Complexity and Contingency: Understanding Transboundary Water Issues
pp 3-26
- By Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, United States, Enamul Choudhury, professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University, Ohio.
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Chapter Two - The Meaning and Logic of Enablement to Explain Complexity and Contingent Actions
pp 27-46
- By Enamul Choudhury, professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University, Ohio., Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, United States
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Chapter Three - Bridging Complexity and Contingency: Role of Three Enabling Conditions to Resolve Water Conflicts in the Indus and Jordan Basins
pp 47-74
- By Enamul Choudhury, professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University, Ohio., Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, United States
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Part II - River Basins around the World: Case Studies
pp 75-76
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Chapter Four - The Resolve to Cooperate on Danube: Enabling Conditions for Transboundary Water Cooperation
pp 77-98
- By Tahira Syed, senior rural development specialist with the Agriculture Global Practice in the World Bank
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Chapter Five - Governance of the Brahmaputra Sub- basin: Exploring the Enabling Conditions
pp 99-128
- By Nilanjan Ghosh, senior fellow and head of economics, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, visiting distinguished fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata.
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Chapter Six - The Ganges River Water Sharing Agreement between Bangladesh and India: In Search of New Mechanisms to Meet New Challenges
pp 129-144
- By Ashok Swain, professor of peace and conflict research
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Chapter Seven - Agreement on Declaration of Principles on the GERD: Interdependence or Leveling the Nile Basin Playing Field?
pp 145-172
- By Salman M. A. Salman, the editor- in- chief of International Water Law journal (www. brill.com/ rpwl)
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Chapter Eight - Reflections on the Colorado River
pp 173-188
- By Kevin Wheeler, engineer, research associate at the University of Oxford and the principal of Water Balance Consulting.
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Part III - Critical Reflection on the Argument of Complexity and Contingency and the Role of Enabling Conditions
pp 189-190
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Chapter Nine - Building a Shared Understanding in Water Management
pp 191-200
- By Bruno Verdini, executive director of the MIT- Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program
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Chapter Ten - Zayandehrud Water Issues: How Can a Negotiated Approach Be Developed?
pp 201-216
- By Mehdi Fasihi Harandi, associate professor adjunct of water governance and diplomacy at the University of Tehran
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Chapter Eleven - Reflections on Enabling Conditions through the Lens of Power Asymmetry
pp 217-224
- By Naho Mirumachi, senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, King's College London.
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Chapter Twelve - Is the Engagement of Third Parties an Enabling Condition of Transboundary Water Cooperation?
pp 225-238
- By Paula Hanasz, the author of Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia (2017).
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Chapter Thirteen - From Pulp to Paper: How Understanding Laws Enhances Cooperation and Enables Water Security
pp 239-252
- By Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari, the cofounder and executive director of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC), Luke Wilson, the cofounder and deputy director of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC).
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Epilogue
pp 253-258
- By Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, United States, Enamul Choudhury, professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University, Ohio.
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-x

Prologue
pp xi-xxiv

Part I - The Conceptual Argument of the Book and a Case Illustration
pp 1-2

Chapter One - Complexity and Contingency: Understanding Transboundary Water Issues
pp 3-26

Chapter Two - The Meaning and Logic of Enablement to Explain Complexity and Contingent Actions
pp 27-46

Chapter Three - Bridging Complexity and Contingency: Role of Three Enabling Conditions to Resolve Water Conflicts in the Indus and Jordan Basins
pp 47-74

Part II - River Basins around the World: Case Studies
pp 75-76

Chapter Four - The Resolve to Cooperate on Danube: Enabling Conditions for Transboundary Water Cooperation
pp 77-98

Chapter Five - Governance of the Brahmaputra Sub- basin: Exploring the Enabling Conditions
pp 99-128

Chapter Six - The Ganges River Water Sharing Agreement between Bangladesh and India: In Search of New Mechanisms to Meet New Challenges
pp 129-144

Chapter Seven - Agreement on Declaration of Principles on the GERD: Interdependence or Leveling the Nile Basin Playing Field?
pp 145-172

Chapter Eight - Reflections on the Colorado River
pp 173-188

Part III - Critical Reflection on the Argument of Complexity and Contingency and the Role of Enabling Conditions
pp 189-190

Chapter Nine - Building a Shared Understanding in Water Management
pp 191-200

Chapter Ten - Zayandehrud Water Issues: How Can a Negotiated Approach Be Developed?
pp 201-216

Chapter Eleven - Reflections on Enabling Conditions through the Lens of Power Asymmetry
pp 217-224

Chapter Twelve - Is the Engagement of Third Parties an Enabling Condition of Transboundary Water Cooperation?
pp 225-238

Chapter Thirteen - From Pulp to Paper: How Understanding Laws Enhances Cooperation and Enables Water Security
pp 239-252

Epilogue
pp 253-258

Notes on Contributors
pp 259-262

Index
pp 263-268

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