Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation?

ISBN-13: 9780312223823 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 255 str.

Mostafa Dolatyar; Tim S. Gray; Tim S. Gray

Opis

The authors of this book put forward a new interpretation of water politics in the Middle East, in which water is seen as a critical factor in moving coutnries towards cooperation rather than conflict with their neighbors.

Spis treści

List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements and Dedication Glossary Preface Introduction Five Approaches to Water Scarcity Water Scarcity: A Global Problem? Water Politics in the Jordan River Basin Water Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin Water Politics in the Arabian Peninsula Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

MOSTAFA DOLATYAR has been associated with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1991. He received his PhD in Politics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998. His publications include The Legal Regime of International Straits: With Emphasis on the Legal Issues of the Hormuz Strait, The Middle Eastern Environment and The Iranian Journal of International Affairs, Vol.8.

TIM S. GRAY has been lecturer in the Politics Department, University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1963. He was appointed Head of Department in 1994, and to a personal Chair in Political Thought in 1996. Trained as a political theorist he has published books and articles on Herbert Spencer, Edmund Burke and Flora Tristan and on the concept of freedom. Developing an interest in environmental politics from 1990, he has also published articles and chapters on the politics of fishing, whaling and population control.