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Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal have conducted several efforts to develop the resources of the shared Senegal River basin. Because of poverty in the region, the development of the river basin's resources remains a major concern of authorities of the four countries, their po…

My dissertation sheds light on the conditions that influence cooperation and conflict among states dependent on the same river basin to meet their fundamental consumption and economic development needs. To account for the prospects of cooperation or conflict, I systematically te…

This project is a comparative case study of three cases in which parties negotiated over the allocation of transboundary fresh water and reached cooperative solutions, albeit different arrangements. The study identifies and focuses on two norms of water-sharing, the norm of hydr…