Turkey-Syria water relations: Institutional development and political confrontations in the euphrates and tigris region

dc.authorscopusid 23392583300
dc.contributor.author Kibaroğlu,A.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-25T12:32:12Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-25T12:32:12Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.department Okan University en_US
dc.department-temp Kibaroğlu A., International Relations Department, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description.abstract The Euphrates-Tigris river system hosts Turkey, Syria and Iraq as its major riparian states. This chapter addresses the evolution of trans-boundary water politics in the Euphrates-Tigris river system in both its power dynamics and cooperative institutional development. For decades since the emergence of the water dispute, the state had stood as the major actor to formulate and implement trans-boundary water policies. However, the discourses and practices of the state bureaucracies, namely the water technocrats in the respective ministries and foreign office diplomats in the riparian states have evolved during the prolonged water dispute, which in turn has played a significant role in changing the nature of trans-boundary water relations. Hence the chapter looks into water relations between Turkey and Syria by paying particular attention to the role of the water bureaucracies in the reorientation of water policies from a conflictual to cooperative status in the 2000s. The chapter briefly concludes that even in the midst of the very recent political crisis between Turkey and Syria, partial institutionalization of water cooperation and growing networks of water dialogue both at the governmental and non-governmental tracks could be utilized as open channels for easing the tensions. After all, severe water shortages caused by mismanagement, misuse and prolonged drought conditions can only be addressed satisfactorily at the river basin level with the engagement of the concerned riparians. Hence, dialogue over water should be kept open at all costs. © 2013 Raymond Hinnebusch and Özlem Tür and the contributors. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 1
dc.identifier.doi 10.4324/9781315549545-17
dc.identifier.endpage 158 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-131700595-7
dc.identifier.isbn 978-140945281-2
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85059852753
dc.identifier.startpage 145 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315549545-17
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/2359
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Turkey-Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Kitap Bölümü - Uluslararası en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 1
dc.subject [No Keyword Available] en_US
dc.title Turkey-Syria water relations: Institutional development and political confrontations in the euphrates and tigris region en_US
dc.type Book Part en_US

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