Water Politics in the Middle East

A Context for Conflict or Cooperation?

M. Dolatyar, T. Gray

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 1999
• ISBN:
  9780230599871
• Categoría: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Categoría: Políticas de Oriente Medio

Most studies of water scarcity in the Middle East conclude that there is a significant risk of imminent conflict, even warfare, between states in the region. This book demonstrates that the evidence does not support this doom-laden prediction. Indeed, the authors show that although water scarcity has occasionally played a role in disputes in the Middle East, it has much more often promoted co-existence between adversaries. The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that water is too critical to be put at risk by warfare.