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Power and Water in Central Asia (Paperback)
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Power and Water in Central Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies
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Water is an irreplaceable and transient resource, which crosses
political boundaries in the form of rivers, lakes, and groundwater
aquifers. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, led to the
birth of fifteen countries including the five Central Asian
republics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan. When the USSR ceased to exist, so did the centralised
Soviet resource distribution system that managed the exchange and
allocation of water, energy, and food supplies. A whole new set of
international relations emerged, and the newly formed Central Asian
governments had to redefine the policies related to the exchange
and sharing of their natural resources. This book analyses the role
of state power in transboundary water relations. It provides an
in-depth study of the evolution of interstate relations in Central
Asia in the field of water from 1991-2015. Taking as a case study
the planned construction of the Rogun and Kambarata dams in
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the author examines various forms of
overt and covert power shaping interstate relations and the way
hegemonic and counter-hegemonic measures are put in place in an
international river basin. He argues that the intimate correlation
between the concepts of power and hegemony can offer key insights
to the analysis and understanding of transboundary water relations.
While the analytical focus is placed on state power, the book
demonstrates that hegemonic and counter-hegemonic tactics represent
the ways in which power is wielded and observed. Offering fresh
theoretical interpretations to the subjects of power and
counter-hegemony in the Aral Sea basin, this book puts forward the
original circle of hydro-hegemony, an analytical framework in which
the various forms of power are connective in the function of
hegemony. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of water
and environmental politics and Central Asian Studies.
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