3.2 Theories of Conflict and Cooperation Over Transboundary Watercourses
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Fig. 3.1 Frequency of key water-related collective action problems. Source Schmeier (2013)
3.2 Theories of Conflict and Cooperation Over
Transboundary Watercourses
3.2.1 Overview
The 1970s brought environmental preoccupations into the forefront of the study of
interstate relations, elevating water among the mainstream subjects of international
security discourse (Allouche 2005). Early studies relating to the international politics
of water, however, almost exclusively focused on the conflict potential of transboundary basins and relied on the analytical and linguistic apparatus of such established
concepts of international relations as realism, liberalism and their multiple variations. The expansion of empirical research on the subject in the 1980s and 1990s
gave new impetus to the “the systematic study of conflict and cooperation between
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Fig. 3.1 Frequency of key water-related collective action problems. Source Schmeier (2013)
3.2 Theories of Conflict and Cooperation Over
Transboundary Watercourses
3.2.1 Overview
The 1970s brought environmental preoccupations into the forefront of the study of
interstate relations, elevating water among the mainstream subjects of international
security discourse (Allouche 2005). Early studies relating to the international politics
of water, however, almost exclusively focused on the conflict potential of transboundary basins and relied on the analytical and linguistic apparatus of such established
concepts of international relations as realism, liberalism and their multiple variations. The expansion of empirical research on the subject in the 1980s and 1990s
gave new impetus to the “the systematic study of conflict and cooperation between