Overview

"""Power and Water in the Middle East"" provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict - hydro-hegemony - the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals how existing tactics to control water are leading away from peace and towards continued domination and a squandering of this vital resource.Existing approaches tend to play down the negative effects of non-violent water conflict, and what is presented as co-operation between countries often hides an underlying state of conflict between them. The new analytical framework of hydro-hegemony exposes the hidden dynamics of water conflict around the world and yields critical insights in to the Middle East water problem. This important work will interest researchers, professionals and policy makers involved with the politics of the Middle East and with water conflict more generally."

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Author:   Mark Zeitoun
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   v. 70
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9781845114640

ISBN 10:   1845114647
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 March 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Preface xiii 1 Water Wars or Water Conflicts? 1 Why no Water Wars? 2 Water and Conflicts 4 Water 'Cooperation' 7 The Role of Power in Water Conflicts 8 Why the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict? 13 Box: Hydrological apartheid in Madama 15 2 Understanding Power and Water 19 Water Conflict Analysis 20 Power and Compliance 24 Three Dimensions of Power 26 Hegemony and Compliance-Producing Mechanisms 30 Power and International Water Law 34 Power and Discourse: Re-writing Reality 38 3 An Asymmetrically Distributed Resource 45 Overview of the Transboundary Water Flows 45 Control Over Water Resources in the West Bank 49 Inequitable Transboundary Water Allocations 57 Why all the Fuss? 59 4 Highly Politicised Hydropolitics 63 The Broader Political Context Post-Oslo 64 A Brief History of the Water Conflict: 1904-2004 65 Internal Israeli Tensions - the Agricultural Lobby 72 Internal Palestinian Tensions - Challenged Legitimacy 73 Contending Hydropolitical Discourses 75 Israeli Hydrostrategic Discourse 75 Israeli Needs, not Rights Discourse 77 viii POWER AND WATER Palestinian Cooperation Discourse 79 Palestinian Rights First Discourse 80 Donors' Cooperation, not Rights Discourse 80 Accumulation Through Dispossession or a Broader Strategy of Asymmetry? 83 5 Hard Power - Coercing the Outcome 87 Damaged Water Infrastructure, Jenin April 2002 88 The Wall 93 6 Bargaining Power - The Joint Water Committee 99 Power Assymetry Structured into the JWC 99 Coerced Compliance 102 'Utilitarian' Compliance 103 Normative Compliance 106 Israeli 'Agenda Setting' 107 Conclusion - the Elephant and the Fly 109 7 Ideational Power - Imposing Ideas 111 Securitisation and the Hasbani River 111 Master-Planning for Palestine 114 The case of the 'Extra 78' and the Eastern Basin 115 Desalination for the land-locked West Bank? 117 Sanctioning the Discourse 120 Conclusion 122 8 Hydraulic Power - Dominance of Production 125 Israeli Water Production 1948-2003 126 Israeli and Palestinian Water Consumption 1948-2003 132 Box: On the data of the Israel Water Commission 137 Summary Analysis of Water Production and Consumption 138 9 Israeli Hydro-Hegemony 145 Power Asymmetry Measured 146 The Evolution of Control 148 Maintaining the Hegemonic Apparatus 151 Evaluation of the Form of Hydro-Hegemony 153 The Effects of Hydro-Hegemony 155 Box: Still dry in Madama 160 The Future 162 Appendices A. Diagrams and Photographs 166 B. Supporting Documents for Damaged Water Infrastructure of Jenin 169 C. Israeli and Palestinian Water Production and Consumption Data 174 Notes 179 Bibliography 191 Index 209

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Mark Zeitoun is a water engineer with more than a decade of experience in conflict and post conflict zones, including thePalestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Chad and the Republic of Congo.

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