The Nile in Legal and Political Perspective: Between Change and Continuity

Author:   Mahemud E. Tekuya
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   11
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9789004549852


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Competition over the Nile watercourse is becoming a global crisis. As population growth, economic development, and urbanization increase the demand for water in the Nile Basin while climate change threatens its supply, the region faces a looming water crisis. An effective resolution of this multifaceted issue, which impacts 11 African countries, requires detailed multidisciplinary research. Until now the academic discourse regarding the Nile watercourse has been primarily dominated by monodisciplinary studies. This book fills that gap, providing a retrospective and prospective look at the Nile through multidisciplinary lenses—commingling history, hydro-politics, climate change, and law. It scrutinizes the legal and hydro-political trajectories of the Nile Basin, from the 4th century A.D. to 2022.

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Author:   Mahemud E. Tekuya
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004549852


ISBN 10:   9004549854
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Preface Acknowledgments List of Table List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 The Global Water Crisis: Finite Supply, Growing Demand 1.2 The Looming Water Crisis in the Nile Basin 1.3 The Legal and Hydro-political Setting of the Nile Basin 1.4 Significance, Objective, and Organization of the Book Part 1 Reconstructing the Legal and Hydro-political History of the Nile Basin 2 The Politics of the Nile Basin: Water Imperialism, Hydro-political Cold War, and Hegemonic Dominance  Introduction 2.1 Pre-colonial Myths and Realities 2.2 The Nile in the Age of Colonialism: the Europeans Scramble for Nile, and the Tana Dam Concession 2.3 The Nile in the Age of Cold War: Hydro-political Rivalry and the Scramble for Dominance  Conclusion 3 The Status of Colonial Nile Waters Treaties under International Law  Introduction 3.1 The Colonial Nile Waters Treaties 3.2 Immediate Post-colonial Dispute over the Colonial Nile Waters Treaties 3.3 The Colonial Nile Waters Treaties and State Succession 3.4 Fundamental Change of Circumstances  Conclusion 4 Legal Arguments Based on the 1959 Agreement and Customary International Law  Introduction 4.1 The 1959 Agreement 4.2 Customary International Watercourses Law  Conclusion Part 2 Post-Cold War Attempts to Change or Maintain the Status Quo 5 Between Unilateralism and Cooperation: the Nile Basin in the Post-Cold War Era  Introduction 5.1 Bilateral Cooperative Initiatives 5.2 Multilateral Cooperative Initiatives 5.3 Back to Competition: Unilateralism as Post-Cold War Modus Operandi  Conclusion 6 The Cooperative Framework Agreement  Introduction 6.1 Drafting and Negotiations of the cfa: Sisyphean Endeavors? 6.2 Basic Principles of the Cooperative Framework Agreement 6.3 Hydro-political Implications  Conclusion Part 3 The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Current Dispute over the Existing Nile Water Agreements 7 The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Declaration of Principles  Introduction 7.1 The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: the Beginning of De-Facto Change in the Status Quo? 7.2 The Declaration of Principles on gerd: a New Paradigm?  Conclusion 8 Sink or Swim: Unlocking the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute  Introduction 8.1 First Filling and Annual Operation of the gerd 8.2 The gerd Washington Talks: Illuminating the Sticking Points 8.3 The Role of the United States in the gerd Talks under International Law 8.4 Post-Washington Negotiations 8.5 The Way Forward: towards Unlocking the gerd Dispute  Conclusion Part 4 Looking into the Future: towards Building a Flexible Legal and Institutional Framework in the Nile Basin 9 Governing the Nile under Climatic Uncertainty: the Need for Climate-Proofed Basin-wide Treaty  Introduction 9.1 Building Flexibility into Treaty Regimes 9.2 Adapting the Nile Basin to Climate Change: Analysis of Treaty Flexibility 9.3 The gerd Negotiations: towards a Flexible Tripartite Agreement? 9.4 The Way Forward: towards a Basin-wide Climate-Proofed Treaty  Conclusion 10 Overall Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Mahemud E. Tekuya, JSD/Ph.D. (2022), McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, is a research and teaching assistant at Oregon State University. He has published extensively on the Nile River and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

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