Motivating Water Diplomacy: Finding the Situational Incentives to Negotiate
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Research attention has been riveted in recent years on identifying the factors that explain or predict the outbreak of violent conflict triggered by environmental change or stress. Much less consideration has been given to understand the factors that orient environmental change situations toward cooperation and the process of negotiation instead. Preliminary analyses and findings are presented that examine the types of environmental, social and economic indicators that presage ripe conditions for negotiating cooperative water resource agreements under circumstances that could easily lead to conflict or cooperation. Unexpectedly, the empirical results suggest that inequality among riparian states across a wide range of physical, economic and social dimensions sets the stage constructively for the negotiation of international and regional agreements on shared water resources.
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Motivating Water Diplomacy: Finding the Situational Incentives to Negotiate
In: International NegotiationSearch for other papers by Spector in
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Abstract
Research attention has been riveted in recent years on identifying the factors that explain or predict the outbreak of violent conflict triggered by environmental change or stress. Much less consideration has been given to understand the factors that orient environmental change situations toward cooperation and the process of negotiation instead. Preliminary analyses and findings are presented that examine the types of environmental, social and economic indicators that presage ripe conditions for negotiating cooperative water resource agreements under circumstances that could easily lead to conflict or cooperation. Unexpectedly, the empirical results suggest that inequality among riparian states across a wide range of physical, economic and social dimensions sets the stage constructively for the negotiation of international and regional agreements on shared water resources.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 725 | 141 | 22 |
| Full Text Views | 134 | 4 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 104 | 12 | 2 |
