In the New World Order

I.B. Tauris, London 2011 : 516 pages

Edited by Terje Tvedt, Graham Chapman and Roar Hagen

As the world’s population continues to grow apace and an increasing number of countries aspire to a twentyfirst century lifestyle, so the question of access to water resources becomes ever more critical.This timely volume shows how water is becoming an issue of growing geopolitical importance, both locally, regionally and globally. Drawing on a wealth of contrasting examples, and revealing how current problems are not necessarily new as often suggested, the international contributors also seek to provide a deeper theoretical analysis of the issues and of the close association of water and power and the potential of cooperative solutions.

Water, Geopolitics and Collective Power in the New World Order
Terje Tvedt, Professor in Political Science and a Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen and Research Leader at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Norway.
Graham Chapman, formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at Downing College Cambridge; Professor of Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies; and at Lancaster University; sometime Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; and the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo; past Chairman of the British Association of South Asian Studies.
Roar Hagen, Professor in Sociology at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

You Can’t Get There from Here: Theoretic Puzzles of Collective Action
John Waterbury, Professor of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University , Lebanon.

Environmental Geopolitics and Hydro-Hegemony: The Case of Palestine and Israel
Mark Zeitoun, Senior Lecturer, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK.

Water: A Source of Wars or a Pathway to Peace? An Empirical Critique of Two Dominant Schools of Thought on Water and International Politics
Terje Tvedt, Professor in Political Science and a Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen and Research Leader at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Norway.

Aquatic Warfare in Historic China
Ralph Sawyer, historical scholar, lecturer, and government consultant specializing in Chinese military and intelligence issues. Fellow of the Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute; National Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies; and Senior Research Fellow with the Warring States Project.

Water in Medieval Warfare
Helen J. Nicholson, Reader in history at Cardiff University, UK.

The Peace of Westphalia and the Water Question: A Perspective for the Benefit of the Other
Pierre Beaudry, Historical Researcher for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), USA. Formerly Professor at the University of Montreal.

‘Drawn by Blind Greed’: The Historical Origins of Criticism Regarding the Destruction of the Amazon River’s Natural Resources
José Augusto Pádua, Professor of Brazilian Environmental History at the History Department and PhD Program on Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Water and the Partitioning of Southern Africa: The British Presence on the Shire River from the 1850s to 1900
Dean Kampanje Phiri, PhD fellow with the University of Bergen, Norway.

Continental Divide: The Issue of Freshwater in Canada–USA Relations
Frank Quinn, Member of the Canadian Water Issues Council at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto. Previously a geographer with the Government of Canada in Ottawa.

The Water Framework Directive: Redesigning the Map of Europe?
Duncan Liefferink, Senior Researcher, Department of Political Sciences of the Environment, Radboud University, the Netherlands.
Mark A. Wiering, Assistant Professor, Department Political Sciences of the Environment (Milieu en Beleid), Radboud University.
Pieter Leroy, Professor of Political Sciences of the Environment, Radboud University.

The Trans-boundary Rivers on the Iberian Peninsula and the Water Management Regime between Spain and Portugal
Jos Timmerman, Senior Policy Advisor at the Directorate-General for Water Affairs of the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

The Strategic and Political Use of Potential Climate Change in Conflict: The Case of Somalia
Peter Haldén, post-doc fellow at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.

The Highlands: A Shared Water Tower in a Changing Climate and Changing Asia
Jianchu Xu, Head of World Agroforestry Centre’s East Asia Program, as well as working for Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science and former Head of Water and Hazards at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu. Former Director of the Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, a NGO based in Southwest China.

Space, Identity and Water: South Asia’s North-East and the Brahmaputra
Graham Chapman, formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at Downing College Cambridge; Professor of Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies; and at Lancaster University; sometime Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; and the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo; past Chairman of the British Association of South Asian Studies.

From Damming Rivers to Linking Waters: the Beginning of the End of Supply-Side Hydrology in India?
Rohan D’Souza, Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Critical Hydropolitics in the Indus Basin
Daanish Mustafa, Senior Lecturer in Environment, Politics and Development, Department of Geography, King’s College, London.

The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: Turkey as a Regional Power
Marwa Daoudy, Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK.

Shared Water and Changing Geopolitics and Power in Central Asia
Zainiddin Karaev, an independent expert on Central Asia contemporary affairs. He received his MPhil in Political Sciences from the Central European University in 2003.

Geopolitics of Groundwater
Todd Jarvis, Assistant Professor in Geosciences and Associate Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University, USA.

International Law and Moderations of Physical Geography: The Nile Setting
Tadesse Kassa, doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law / Center for Development and Environment.

Global Institutions and Water Governance
Ruth Langridge, Research Fellow, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies and a Lecturer in the Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.