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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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Table of Contents

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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