A River Flows Through It : A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia (Hardcover)

Introduction: Comparing transboundary river cooperation in Asia Selina Ho 1. Taking Stock: International Water Conflict and Cooperation: challenges and opportunities Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Jennifer C. Veilleux and Aaron T. Wolf Part 1: Water disputes and cooperation in Asia 2. China’s transboundary river policies towards Kazakhstan: issue-linkages and incentives for cooperation Selina Ho 3. China’s "old and new" Mekong River politics: the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation from a comparative benefit-sharing perspective Sebastian Biba 4. Assessing the Indus Waters Treaty from a comparative perspective Neda Zawahri and David Michel 5. The Heilongjiang (Amur) River in Sino-Russian relations: from conflict towards cooperation Wan Wang and Xing Li 6. River activism, policy entrepreneurship and transboundary water disputes in Asia Pichamon Yeophantong 7. Dam Diplomacy? China’s new neighbourhood policy and Chinese dam-building Carla P. Freeman 8. Multi-track diplomacy: current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River Basin Yumiko Yasuda, Douglas Hill, Dipankar Aich, Patrick Huntjens and Ashok Swain Part II: Lessons from Africa, Europe, and the United States 9. Infrastructure development and the economics of cooperation in the Eastern Nile Marc Jeuland, Xun Wu and Dale Whittington 10. The remarkable restoration of the Rhine: plural rationalities in regional water politics Marco Verweij 11. The dilemma of autonomy: decentralization and water politics at the subnational level Scott M. Moore