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Cooperating over water: from a quantitative analysis to a qualitative study of the Okavango River Basin

The thesis explores the reasons why states cooperate rather than fight over transboundary water resources. Through a mixed-method research involving both quantitative and qualitative analytical tools, the research shows that states tend to cooperate with one another when (a multidimensional conceptualisation of) interstate power relations are more symmetric, amongst other power-asymmetry arguments. They also tend to cooperate more than others when there exist a high disparity in the level of development between riparian states, and when their relations are characterised by high levels of economic interdependence. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209267
Date26 July 2014
CreatorsCarles, Alexis
ContributorsMorin, Jean-Frédéric, Gemenne, François, Orsini, Amandine, Delreux, Tom T., Warner, Jeroen
PublisherUniversite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences sociales et politiques – Sciences politiques, Bruxelles
Source SetsUniversité libre de Bruxelles
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation
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