Shlomi Dinar
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014977
- eISBN:
- 9780262295505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014977.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter examines the role of the military in historical water. Its main discussion revolves around water disputes, water scarcity in international rivers, their freshwater, and how these issues ...
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This chapter examines the role of the military in historical water. Its main discussion revolves around water disputes, water scarcity in international rivers, their freshwater, and how these issues lead to conflict and cooperation. Important characteristics such as geographic discrepancies between the rivers and bargaining strategies, which facilitated international politics in cooperation, are also discussed. The asymmetries among the river riparians played a major role in exploring the conflict and cooperation of hydro-politics. Water allocation, pollution, and flood control issues are covered by the later parts of the chapter, with necessary illustrations. The concluding part states that even though many water disputes are resolved through international water agreements, a major obstacle of international cooperation still lies in hydro-politics and its asymmetries.Less
This chapter examines the role of the military in historical water. Its main discussion revolves around water disputes, water scarcity in international rivers, their freshwater, and how these issues lead to conflict and cooperation. Important characteristics such as geographic discrepancies between the rivers and bargaining strategies, which facilitated international politics in cooperation, are also discussed. The asymmetries among the river riparians played a major role in exploring the conflict and cooperation of hydro-politics. Water allocation, pollution, and flood control issues are covered by the later parts of the chapter, with necessary illustrations. The concluding part states that even though many water disputes are resolved through international water agreements, a major obstacle of international cooperation still lies in hydro-politics and its asymmetries.
Mohan K. Tikku
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199463503
- eISBN:
- 9780199086771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199463503.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy, International Relations and Politics
Despite the on-going talk of a negotiated settlement, all indications were moving in the direction of a resumption of fighting. All through 2006 there were growing signs of rising levels of violence ...
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Despite the on-going talk of a negotiated settlement, all indications were moving in the direction of a resumption of fighting. All through 2006 there were growing signs of rising levels of violence that could only lead to an open war. Whether it was the right to sea of the Sea Tigers or the dispute over water in Trincomalee, each side was testing the other by provocative actions that included violations of the ceasefire agreement. Closure of the A-9 Highway by the government starved Jaffna of supplies. An increase in the number of attacks on the civilians— for many of which the security forces or the paramilitaries were responsible— was setting the pace for further escalation. The international community was being rather selective in condemning many of the transgressions—and that was not helping either.Less
Despite the on-going talk of a negotiated settlement, all indications were moving in the direction of a resumption of fighting. All through 2006 there were growing signs of rising levels of violence that could only lead to an open war. Whether it was the right to sea of the Sea Tigers or the dispute over water in Trincomalee, each side was testing the other by provocative actions that included violations of the ceasefire agreement. Closure of the A-9 Highway by the government starved Jaffna of supplies. An increase in the number of attacks on the civilians— for many of which the security forces or the paramilitaries were responsible— was setting the pace for further escalation. The international community was being rather selective in condemning many of the transgressions—and that was not helping either.
