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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 December 2009
      21 October 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511598708
      9780521558365
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598708
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.468kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Middle East History, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
      Series:
      Cambridge Middle East Library (31)
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Middle East History, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
    Series:
    Cambridge Middle East Library (31)
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    Why do states in arid regions fail to co-operate in sharing water resources when co-operation would appear to be in their mutual interest? Through in-depth analysis of the history and current status of the dispute over the Jordan River basin, Miriam Lowi explores the answers to these critical questions.

    Reviews

    ‘This excellent, readable and timely study will be of great value to a wide audience: international relations scholars, Middle East specialists, hydrologists, environmental scholars and those concerned generally with resource conflicts.’

    Source: International Affairs

    ‘[The] work offers insight not only on a regional matter of complexity and importance, but also on the problems faced in many parts of the world where political issues transcend lines drawn on maps.’

    Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Secretary General of the United Nations

    ‘Using the dispute between Israel and its Arab neighbours over the waters of the Jordan River as a case study, Miriam R. Lowi has given us an excellent analysis of this intractable problem …’

    Robert G. Gilpin - Princeton University

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