The Nile development game : tug-of-war or benefits for all? /: tug-of-war or benefits for all?. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mina Michel Samaan.
• Authors: Samaan, Mina Michel
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgment; Abstract; Zusammenfassung (Abstract in German); Contents; Abbreviations and Short Names; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Nile Development Game; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Aim and Question; 1.3 Theoretical Foundations; 1.4 Research Design; 1.5 Methodology; 1.6 Resources and Limitations; 1.7 Book Structure; Chapter 2: The Analytic Framework: Modeling the Dilemma of Transboundary River Basins as an Iterated PD Game; 2.1 Conceptualizing the Puzzle of Transboundary Water Management 2.1.1 Governing the Freshwater Commons Under International Anarchy2.1.2 Asymmetric Interdependence; 2.1.3 Vitality, Variability and Vulnerability of Freshwater Resources; 2.2 Setting the Game of Development on Transboundary River Basins; 2.2.1 Mixed Motives over Transboundary Waters; 2.2.2 Choices and Preferences in the Hydropolitical Realm; 2.2.3 Scenarios of Utilizing the River and the Generated Payoffs; 2.2.4 Not a One-Move Game But an Iterated Game; 2.2.5 Bilateral Relations Between Riparians and the Formation of Clusters; 2.2.6 The Hydropolitical Game Running Under Anarchy 2.3 The Game Equilibrium2.3.1 Strategy of Reciprocity; 2.3.2 Heterogeneities Over Interests, Capabilities and Beliefs; 2.3.3 Symmetric Balance of Power; 2.3.4 Asymmetric Balance of Power; 2.3.5 How Does the Context Influence the Game Outcomes?; 2.4 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3: The Colonial Round: The Opening Scene of Utilizing the Nile Waters Outside Egypt; 3.1 The Contexts of the Colonial Round; 3.2 The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 3.2.1 The Nile Before the British Occupation of Egypt; 3.2.2 Opening the Suez Canal and the British Occupation of Egypt 3.2.3 The Fashoda Incident and the Nile Colonial Treaties3.3 The First Half of the Twentieth Century; 3.3.1 The British Vision on the Nile; 3.3.2 The Gezira Scheme and the 1929 Nile Waters Agreement; 3.3.3 The Tana Concession; 3.3.4 The Century Storage Scheme and the Owen Falls Dam; 3.4 Analysis and Discussion; 3.4.1 Sole Utilization (T-S and S-T); 3.4.2 Cooperation (R-R); 3.4.3 Contention (P-P); 3.5 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4: The Cold War Round: Large-Scale National Water Schemes in a Polarized World; 4.1 The Contexts of the Cold War Round; 4.2 From the 1950s to the 1960s 4.2.1 The Transition from the Colonial Age to the Cold War Age4.2.2 The Aswan High Dam, the Roseires Dam, and the 1959 Agreement; 4.2.3 The Adoption of Conflicting Political Agendas; 4.2.4 The Blue Nile Study by the Bureau of Reclamation; 4.2.5 The Finchaa Dam; 4.2.6 The 1961-1964 Great Rains and the Hydromet Survey; 4.3 From the 1970s to the 1980s; 4.3.1 Shifting Camps of the Cold War; 4.3.2 The Soviet Survey on the Blue Nile and the 1977 UN Water Conference; 4.3.3 The Peace Canal; 4.3.4 The Jonglei Canal; 4.3.5 The 1983-1985 Famine in Ethiopia and the 1988 Flood in Sudan
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.69; Conflict management -- Nile River Watershed -- International cooperation; Prisoner's dilemma game; Cooperativeness; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Nile River Watershed -- Politics and government; Nile River Watershed -- Economic conditions; Nile River Watershed -- Social conditions; Nile River Watershed -- Economic integration; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030026653; 3030026655
• Related ISBNs: 9783030026646; 3030026647
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, January 3, 2019).
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