Managing water is a challenging task, particularly in the shared water basins that host more than half of the world's population. National sovereignty and security considerations have long constrained the reasonable, equitable, and sustainable use of international water courses. With 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 change entails new threats but also presents new opportunities for ensuring international water security.This volume explores both these threats and opportunities. Using case studies, the authors analyze the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the interplay between domestic and international water security. The book examines a range of past, ongoing, and emerging international water disputes from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Well-known cases are revisited from new perspectives while new approaches are suggested as analytical frameworks and practical tools for understanding and coping with emerging security threats.
1 Introduction: From domestic to international water security by Libor Jansky and Mikiyasu Nakayama and Nevelina I. Pachova 1
Pt. I Treaties and institutions 7
2 The Indus water dispute and its relation with domestic policies by Shuntaro Yamamoto 9
3 Domestic issues in developing international waters in Lesotho: Ensuring water security amidst political instability by Naho Mirumachi 35
4 Domestic drivers of international water security on the Danube by Nevelina I. Pachova and Libor Jansky 61
5 Transboundary cooperation vs. internal ambitions: The role of China and Cambodia in the Mekong region by Marko Keskinen and Katri Mehtonen and Olli Varis 79
6 The role of domestic security in the functioning of the Lake Chad Basin Commission by Virpi Stucki and Madiodio Niasse 110
Pt. II Emerging security threats 127
7 People's encroachment onto Sudan's Nile banks and its impact on Egypt by Mahmoud El Zain 129
8 Inter-basin water transfers as a technico-political option: Thai-Burmese projects on the Salween River by Bastien Affeltranger 161
9 The implications of domestic security policy for international water issues in the context of "virtual" and "real" water: The Aral Sea and Mekong River basins by Mikiyasu Nakayama 180
Pt. III Opportunities for cooperation 193
10 Water governance of the Mekong River Basin and Chinese national problems by Kayo Onishi 195
11 Transboundary water issues in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin: Some methodological approaches and opportunities for cooperation by Aysegul Kibaroglu and Anthi D. Brouma and Mete Erdem 223
12 The politics of security in the Okavango River Basin: From civil war to saving wetlands (1975-2002) - a preliminary security impact assessment by Jeroen F. Warner and Richard Meissner 252
Pt. IV Conclusions 287
13 National sovereignty and human security: Changing realities and concepts in international water management by Nevelina I. Pachova and Mikiyasu Nakayama and Libor Jansky 289
