Water is the most critical resource for the long-term sustainable development of the Middle East. Without an amicable agreement between the countries concerned to develop and use the scarce water resources on an equitable basis, no lasting peace is possible in the region. The water issue has concurrent political, technical, economic, and social dimensions. In order to examine these complex interrelationships and to propose some possible solutions, a Middle East Water Commission was established with leading international water experts as its members. This book is the final report of this Commission and is an outstanding example of how complex inter-country water issues can be analyzed. The book would be of direct interest to anyone interested in the management of international waters.

Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water (Water Resources Management Series)

Arts & Photography

Waterbury, John

Biswas, Asit K.

Murakami, Masahiro

Kolars, John

Wolf, Aaron

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The commander of the faithful;: The Moroccan political elite - a study in segmented politics (Modern Middle East series)

Columbia University Press

Egypt: Burdens of the Past, Options for the Future

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Egypt: Burdens of the past, options for the future

Business & Money

Economics

Indiana University Press

The commander of the faithful: the Moroccan political elite: --a study in segmented politics (The nature of human society series)

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in complex political, legal, environmental, and economic considerations. This book focuses on the issues that face all international river basins by examining in detail the Nile Basin and the ten countries that lay claim to its waters. John Waterbury applies collective action theory and international relations theory to the challenges of the ten Nile nations. Confronting issues ranging from food security and famine prevention to political stability, these countries have yet to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of how to manage the Nile’s resources. Waterbury proposes a series of steps leading to the formulation of environmentally sound policies and regulations by individual states, the establishment of accords among groups of states, and the critical participation of third-party sources of funding like the World Bank. He concludes that if there is to be a solution to the dilemmas of the Nile Basin countries, it must be based upon contractual understandings, brokered by third-party funders, and based on the national interests of each basin state. “This excellent book makes a significant contribution to the rational discussion of Nile conflicts and should be helpful to many of the other 282 international river basins facing similar problems.”―Peter P. Rogers, Harvard University

The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action

Yale University Press

The Political Economy Of Public Sector Reform And Privatization

Suleiman, Ezra

Routledge

North for the trade;: The life & times of a Berber merchant

University of California Press

The states of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences have been typical of scores of developing countries that followed similar paths of industrialization. This study examines the origins of these state sectors, the dynamics of their growth and crises, and the efforts to reform or liquidate them. It is argued that public ownership creates its own culture and pathology that are similar across otherwise different systems. The logic of principal-agent relations under public ownership is so powerful that it swamps culture and peculiar institutional histories. While public sectors accumulate powerful associated interests over time, against most predictions these prove relatively powerless to block the reform process.

Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

Cambridge University Press

The states of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences have been typical of scores of developing countries that followed similar paths of industrialization. This study examines the origins of these state sectors, the dynamics of their growth and crises, and the efforts to reform or liquidate them. It is argued that public ownership creates its own culture and pathology that are similar across otherwise different systems. The logic of principal-agent relations under public ownership is so powerful that it swamps culture and peculiar institutional histories. While public sectors accumulate powerful associated interests over time, against most predictions these prove relatively powerless to block the reform process.

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