Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Hydro-hegemony – a framework for analysis of trans-boundary water conflicts" ?
Further refinement of the framework may be gained by testing it on river basins outside of the MENA region.
Q3. What is the preferred tactic when employing a containment strategy?
The drafting and signing of a treaty favouring the hydro-hegemon is the preferred tactic when employing a containment strategy, such as the bilateral treaties of Israel–Jordan in 1994 (Dombrowski, 1998: 99) and Israel-Palestine in 1995 (Selby, 2003a).
Q4. What is the role of the hydro hegemon in the development of the world?
Aside from assuring itself the most secure and largest share of the scarce resource, the benefits of enjoying a position of hydrohegemony extend to determining the political discursive processes in each of the basins.
Q5. What is the stable situation in terms of riparian relations?
The most stable situation in terms of riparian relations is likely to be when the riparians share control of the resource, as the case whereby the hegemon has negotiated a water-sharing agreement that is perceived positively by all riparians.
Q6. What are the power resources that enable riparian states to do so?
The power resources that enable them to do so are numerous and include international support, the ability to mobilize funds and general “human capital”, such as the level of education and technology in-country.
Q7. What is the role of the hydro-hegemon in the creation of a new regime?
By “building-in” to a regime benefits that may be more equitably distributed than the water itself, a hydro-hegemon may concede some of the privileges offered through its relative power5.
Q8. How does the author find the power to prevent Syria from undertaking projects on the Tigris River?
By drawing on the fading ideology of Arab brotherhood, for example, Iraq may find enough bargaining power to prevent Syria (if not Turkey) from undertaking projects on the Tigris River without prior notification.
Q9. What is the definition of a resource capture strategy?
A resource capture strategy may be analagous to what Waterbury terms ‘active unilateralism’, “whereby a riparian, in the absence of formal understandings, moves ahead with projects that affect the flow or quality of the resource” (Waterbury, 1997: 279).
Q10. What is the point of the framework’s power-analytic approach?
The point of this framework’s power-analytic approach must be retained however: power, in all of its forms, will be active in the distribution of benefits just as it is active in the distribution of flows.
Q11. What is the strength of the issue-linkage feature of bargaining power?
The issue-linkage feature of bargaining power reveals a further weakness that structural power has in countering it – structural power has a relatively lower fungibility, resulting in operational constraints (Evans & Newnham, 1998: 188).
Q12. What is the meaning of sovereignty and the allocation of jurisdiction by political borders?
“The two basic building blocks of the global political and legal environment – the concept of sovereignty and the allocation of jurisdiction by political borders – have joined forces to preclude an efficient and sustainable use of trans-boundary resources.
Q13. What is the relationship between the dominative form of hydro-hegemony and the weaker?
The dominative form of hydro-hegemony is thus associated with induced relative scarcity for the weaker riparians and unstable hydro-relations.