Water Politics in the Middle East
Subtitle: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: December 3, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780312223823
Subjects: Water And Marine Resources Management; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Government - Comparative; International Relations - General; Water Supply; History / Middle East; Nature-Water Supply; Political Science / International Relations; Political Science-Government - Comparative; Middle East - General; Natural Resources; Middle East; Political aspects; Strategic aspects; Water resources development; Water-supply
Description: "It is common-place among commentators on the Middle East that the next war in that region will be fought over water, not oil. However, the evidence does not support this prediction; although water scarcity has occasionally provoked dispute in the Middle East, it has more often promoted co-existence between adversaries."--BOOK JACKET.

"Accordingly the authors put forward a new interpretation of water politics in which water is seen as a critical factor in moving countries towards co-operation rather than conflict with their neighbours."--BOOK JACKET.