Le partage des eaux entre la Syrie, l’Irak et la Turquie

Water, societies and sustainability: A few anthropological examples of non-market water values

“…Thus "in the Arab-Israeli conflict, water is the very logical counterpart to the question of the distribution of territories and the survival of the economies they support; in the case of Egypt and the Nile, the desire for regional domination and, therefore, Cairo's geopolitical objectives, are not extraneous to the conflict; finally the Kurdish issue, used by Damascus but still a serious domestic problem for Turkey, is an important dimension of the dispute over the sharing of the Euphrates" (Laserre 2006). Marwa Daoudy (2005), too-in the particularly sensitive context of the sharing of waters between Syria, Iraq and Turkey-does not speak of war or of the market value of water, but rather of negotiations, respective positions, crises and phases of detente. Here again, the approach is societal.…”

De l’action militaire à l’après-guerre, une gestion toujours conflictuelle de l’espace : l’exemple des guerres du Golfe

“…Un nouveau rapport de force stratégique Dans le cadre de la situation complexe du Moyen-Orient, l'impact du dossier de l'eau sur la relation stratégique des riverains est significatif. Les acteurs ne cherchent pas seulement à garantir une distribution optimale des eaux communes mais leur objectif ultime réside en l'établissement d'arrangements sécuritaires stables 22 .…”

Benefit-sharing as a tool of conflict transformation: Applying the Inter-SEDE model to the Euphrates and Tigris river basins

“…But because agreements of this type 14 tend to be bilateral (ignoring other co-riparians), they are at least somewhat unstable, and benefits that can arise from issue-linkage become exhausted over time. More generally, bilateral agreements cannot be considered to reflect a key principle of customary international water law, namely, equitable utilization.…”