1st Edition
A River Flows Through It A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia
Introduction: Comparing transboundary river cooperation in Asia
Selina Ho
1. Taking Stock: International Water Conflict and Cooperation: challenges and opportunities
Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Jennifer C. Veilleux and Aaron T. Wolf
Part 1: Water disputes and cooperation in Asia
2. China’s transboundary river policies towards Kazakhstan: issue-linkages and incentives for cooperation
Selina Ho
3. China’s "old and new" Mekong River politics: the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation from a comparative benefit-sharing perspective
Sebastian Biba
4. Assessing the Indus Waters Treaty from a comparative perspective
Neda Zawahri and David Michel
5. The Heilongjiang (Amur) River in Sino-Russian relations: from conflict towards cooperation
Wan Wang and Xing Li
6. River activism, policy entrepreneurship and transboundary water disputes in Asia
Pichamon Yeophantong
7. Dam Diplomacy? China’s new neighbourhood policy and Chinese dam-building
Carla P. Freeman
8. Multi-track diplomacy: current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River Basin
Yumiko Yasuda, Douglas Hill, Dipankar Aich, Patrick Huntjens and Ashok Swain
Part II: Lessons from Africa, Europe, and the United States
9. Infrastructure development and the economics of cooperation in the Eastern Nile
Marc Jeuland, Xun Wu and Dale Whittington
10. The remarkable restoration of the Rhine: plural rationalities in regional water politics
Marco Verweij
11. The dilemma of autonomy: decentralization and water politics at the subnational level
Scott M. Moore
Biography
Selina Ho researches and writes on Chinese politics and foreign policy, focusing on water disputes and infrastructural politics. She has published widely on China’s water disputes, and is the author of two books, Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (co-author, University of California Press, 2020). She is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
