Euphrates-Tigris Rivers System: Political Rapprochement and Transboundary Water Cooperation

Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül; Scheumann, Waltina

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“…In the same context, discourses emphasizing mutual gains and past collaboration facilitate cooperative adaptation to droughts (Bogale and Korf, 2007). Similarly, a partial shift from discourses of zero-sum competition and water securitization to discourses about water interdependence and benefit-sharing has proven crucial for the emergence of more cooperative interactions on the Euphrates and Tigris between Turkey, Iraq and Syria in the 2000s (Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2013;Sümer, 2014). In the words of Lene Hansen (2006, p. 214), "'facts', 'events', and 'material factors' did not in and of themselves produce policy.…”

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Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide¹,

Fröhlich

2015

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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Abstract. The existing literature faces difficulties when accounting for the simultaneity of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation. We suggest that this puzzle can be solved by more recent constructivist works, which argue that conflictive or cooperative behavior is driven by discursively constructed interests, identities and situation assessments. Based on a literature review and field interviews, we analyze and compare the dominant water discourses in Israel and Palestine with the discourse dominant among the activists of a water cooperation project between communities from Israel and the West Bank. Our main result is that discourses are indeed crucial for understanding water-related conflict and cooperation. This finding highlights the relevance of constructivist approaches in the study of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation as well as of practices of bottom-up discursive conflict transformation.

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Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide¹,

Fröhlich

2015

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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“…Kibaroglu and Scheumann (2013) analyze the evolution of transboundary water relations over four periods, beginning with the nation building in the region until the phase in which the reorientation of water policies from hostile to cooperative became significant. Elver (2002) explores the transnational arrangements among Turkey, Syria and Iraq for the allocation of river resources.…”

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“…(Zawahri, 2006) Due to this, the implementation of Turkey's water utilization projects was delayed, but its economic boom allowed Turkey to turn inward to meet parts of its financing needs. (Kibaroglu et al, 2005, Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2011, Tigrek and Kibaroglu, 2011 The key to improved hydro-political relations between Turkey and Syria as well as Turkey and Iraq could be Turkey's bid for EU membership as well as Turkey's growth as a global power. These political ambition forces Turkey to act in a more cooperative manner.…”

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“…Two framework cooperation agreements were signed in 2003 and 2004 between both countries which contain for instance arrangements about water conservation in agricultural practice as well as efforts to combat waterborne disease. (Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2011) The memorandum of understanding was signed in 2009 between Syria and Turkey as well as between Turkey and Iraq which covers issues such as information exchange, water utilization, hydropower, drought and water quality. (Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2011 ) The recent cooperative initiatives confirm Turkey's good will towards Syria and Iraq and indicate a changing dynamic in the basin.…”

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“…(Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2011) The memorandum of understanding was signed in 2009 between Syria and Turkey as well as between Turkey and Iraq which covers issues such as information exchange, water utilization, hydropower, drought and water quality. (Kibaroglu and Scheumann, 2011 ) The recent cooperative initiatives confirm Turkey's good will towards Syria and Iraq and indicate a changing dynamic in the basin. An example for linking the water issue with unrelated issues is the protocol on "Matters Pertaining to Cooperation" which was signed in 1987 by Turkey and Syria.…”

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Abstract“Friendship dams” are an explicit, yet underexplored, materialization of hydropolitics that illustrate the potential role of water in international cooperation. Via a case study analysis of the Syria‐Turkey Friendship Dam project proposed for the Asi/Orontes river, we trace the process of cooperation that led to the use of this notion of “friendship” in transboundary cooperation. Using a transversal analysis of different phases of cooperation and non‐cooperation, we consider broad, big‐picture political and diplomatic factors related to water and beyond. Our analysis shows that two key variables shaped how water was used as an instrument of cooperation in this case: (1) security and (2) the dynamics of international cooperation undertaken by the riparians, namely Turkey. The friendship dam label can be considered a manifestation of strategic international friendship that the two riparian countries invoked to achieve security and bilateral cooperation.

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Euphrates-Tigris Rivers System: Political Rapprochement and Transboundary Water Cooperation

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