RESEARCH GUIDE:

MIDDLE EAST WATER ISSUES

Readers from Jordan, Israel, and the United States simultaneously asked about contemporary water issues in the Middle East. So we put together a large bibliography on the subject for your use with help from kind scholars in Canada, England, Holland, Israel, Sweden, and the United States. We are most grateful for this fine example of intrnational cooperation which involved researchers from seven countries.

Allen, Roger and Mallat, Chibli, eds., Water in the Middle East. British Academy Press. London, 1995. 

Allan, A. "Middle East Water: local and global issues." SOAS Water Issues Group, University of London, 1995. http://www.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/Papers/9508ta1_01.html 

Allan, A. "Virtually no Water." The Middle East in 1997, (EMAP Business International Ltd) 1997. 

Allan, J. Anthony. "The Nile: The Need for an Integrated Water Management Policy." G. Nonneman (ed.), The Middle East and Europe: the Search for Stability and Integration, 2nd ed., London, 1993. pp. 235-244.

Assaf, Karen, et. al. A Proposal for the Development of a Regional Water Master Plan. Israel-Palestine Centre for Research, Jerusalem, 1993. 

"As thick as blood. Water in the Middle East", The Economist, 23-12-95/5-12-96, pp. 57-59 

Beaumont, Peter. "Water - A Resource under Pressure." (on the Tigris-Euphrates system) G. Nonneman (ed.), The Middle East and Europe: the Search for Stability and Integration, 2nd ed., London, 1993. pp. 183-188.

Beschorner, Natasha. "Water and Instability in the Middle East." Adelphi Paper, 273, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Winter 1992/93.

Biswas, Asit, K. ed. International Waters of the Middle East. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. 

Brans, E.H.P. et al. eds. The Scarcity of Water. 1997 

Butts, K. H. "The Strategic Importance of Water." Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 1997). 

Brooks, David. "Adjusting to the Flow: Two Comments on Middle East Water Crisis," Water International, Vol. 18 (1993), pp. 33-39. 

Bulloch, John and Darwish, Adel. Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East. London, 1993. 

Dillman, Jeffrey. "Water Rights in the Occupied Territories," Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 (1989). 

Dolatyar, Mostafa and Gray, Tim S.  Water Politics in the Middle East: A context for Conflict or Cooperation?

Drezon-Tepler, Marcia. "Contested Water and the Prospects for Arab-Israeli Peace," Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (1994).

Elmusa, Sarif S. "The Jordan-Israel Water Agreement: A Model or an Exception," Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1994), pp. 63-73. 

Fishelson, Gideon, Solutions for the Scarcity Water in the Middle East in Times of Peace. Tel Aviv, 1992 

Gleik, Peter. "Water and Conflict," vol. 18, no. 1 (1993), pp. 79-112. 

Gregory, Joseph R. "Liquid Asset," World Monitor 28 (November 1991). 

Guner, Serdar. "Signalling in the Turkish-Syrian Water Conflict"  Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 16, No.2, (Fall 1998), pp.185-206.

Haddad, M. "Water Resources in the Middle East: Conflict and Solutions." WRAP, Jerusalem and Nablus University, 1995. <http://endjinn.soas.ac.uk/Geography/Water Issues/9505 Jordan/Jordan01.html> 

al-Hassan, Omar. Water Resources in the Middle East. Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies. London, 1996. 

Hillel, Dan, (1994), Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press.

Hindley, Angus. "Battle Lines Drawn for Euphrates," Middle East Economic Development (October 13, 1989). 

Isaac, Jad, et. al., eds. Water and Peace in the Middle East. Amsterdam, 1994 

Kally, Elisha and Fishelson, Gideon. Water and Peace: Water Resources and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. Westport, CT, 1993. 

Kliot, Nurit, Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East. London, 1994. 

Kolars, John, "The Middle East Growing Water Crisis," Research & Exploration, vol. 9 (1993), pp. 39-49. 

Kolars, John, "Water Resources of the Middle East," in Israel Water: Study for the World Bank, Washington DC, 1994. 

Kolars, John and H. Mitchell. The Euphrates River (Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1990). 

Libiszewski, S. "Water Disputes in the Jordan Basin Region and their Role in the Resolution of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." ENCOP Occasional Paper, no. 13. August 1995, http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/13/en13.html 

Lithwick, Harvey. "Evaluating Water Balances in Israel," Negev Center for Regional Development. lithwick@bgumail.bgu.ac.il 

Longergan, Stephen, and Brooks, David, Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1994. 

Lowi, Miriam. Water and Power: The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 

Lowi, Miriam. "Bridging the Divide: Transboundary Resource Disputes and the Case of West Bank Water," International Security, vol. 18, no. 1 (1993), pp. 113-138. 

Lowi, Miriam, "Conflict and Cooperation in Resource Development," in Elis Boulding, ed., Peace Building in the Middle East: Challenges for States and for Civil Society, Boulder, 1994. 

Morris, Mary E. "Water Scarcity and Security Concerns in the Middle East." Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research Occasional Paper (no. 14, 1998). 

Musallam, Ramzi, (1990), Water: Sources of Conflict in the Middle East in the 1990s, London: Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies. 

Nachmani, Amikam, "The Politics of Water in the Middle East", in Inbar, Efraim, ed, Regional Security Regimes. Albany, N.Y, 1995. 

Nachmani, Amikam. "Water jitters in the Middle East," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 20, No.1 (Jan-March 1997):67-93. (Reprinted as Security and Policy Studies No. 32, The BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel, June 1997) 

Naff, Thomas. "Water: An Emerging Issue in the Middle East?" The Annals of the American Academy of Political Scientists (November 1985).

Naff, Thomas. "Middle East: Water Issues in the 1990's: testimonies submitted to the U.S. House [of Congress] Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East," Washington, June 26, 1990. 

Naff, Thomas and Ruth Matson, eds. Water in the Middle East: Conflict or Cooperation? (Boulder: Westview, 1984) 

Nestor, Carl E. "Kurdish water, Turkish fire: the Role of the Southeast Anatolian Project in the Social Integration of the Kurds into the Turkish State." The International Journal of Kurdish Studies, vols. 8 and 9, (1995-96). 

North, Robert, (1977), "Toward a Framework for the Analysis of Scarcity and Conflict," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4. 

Pearce, Fred. The Dammed: Rivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis. London 1992. 

Peters, J. "Pathways to Peace - The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks." The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996. 

Rogers, Peter and Peter Lydon (eds.), Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses. Harvard University Press, 1994. 

Rouyer, Alwyn, "The Water Issue in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process," Survival, vol. 39, no. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 57-81. 

Rouyer, Alwyn, "Zionism and Water: Influences on Israel's Future Water Policy During the Pre-state Period," Arab Studies Quarterly, Winter 1997. 

Schultz, M. "Turkey, Syria and Iraq: A Hydropolitical Security Complex." Regional Case Studies of Water Conflicts (Padrigu Papers), Peace and Development Research Institute, Gothenburg University, 1992. 

Selby, Jan. "Between War ad Peace: Water in the Middle East." Presented to CMEIS, Durham University, February 1998. Available from the author: j.selby@lancaster.ac.uk 

Serageldin, I. "Surviving Scarcity, Sustainable Management of Water Resources." Harvard International Review, vol. 18, no. 3 (Summer, 1996); 

Sexton, Richard, "The Middle East Water Crisis: Is it the Making of a New Middle East Regional Order?" Capitalism, Environment, Socialism, 3 (4), December 1992, pp. 65. 

Shapland, Greg. Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East. (London, 1997). 

Sherman, Martin. The Politics of Water in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective on the Hydro-Political Aspects of the Conflict. (MacMillan Press and St. Martin's Press, 1999). 

Shuval, Hillel, "Approaches to Resolving The Water Conflicts Between Israel and her Neighbours," Water International, Vol. 17 (1992), pp. 133-43. 

Soffer, Arnon. The Conflict of Water in the Middle East [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1992. 

al-Solh, R. "Water crisis in the Middle East." London, May 19, 1997. http://www.arab.net/arabview/articles/solh1.html  

Starr, Joyce and Daniel C Stoll. The Politics of Scarcity: Water in the Middle East. Boulder, 1987. 

Starr, Joyce "Water Wars," Foreign Policy, no. 82, (Spring 1991), pp. 17-36. 

Starr, Joyce and Stoll, Daniel, United States Foreign Policy on Water Resources in the MiddEast. Washington DC: CSIS. (1987). 

Abu-Taleb, Maher. "Regional Cooperation in Water Resource Management," in Elis Boulding, ed., Peace-Building in the Middle East: Challenges for States and for Civil Society, Boulder, 1994. 

Tamimi, Abdel Rahman, "Water: A Factor for Conflict or Peace in the Middle East," Israeli-Palestinian Peace Research Project Working Papers, Jerusalem: Harry Truman Research Institute, the Hebrew University 1991. 

Warner, Jeroen, Tightropes Across the River. Managing Conflict in Middle East River Basins. Occasional Paper, No. 17, Middle East Research Associates, Amsterdam, 1993. 

Warner, Jeroen. Kicking the Water Habit. Israel, Palestine and the New Water Order. Amsterdam Middle East Paper No 7, University of Amsterdam. 

Westing, Arthur. Global Resources and International Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 

Wilder, Wendy. The Hydropolitics of Scarcity in the Jordan River Basin. London: Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies, 1994. 

Wishart, David. "The Breakdown of the Johnston Negotiations Over the Jordan River," Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 26, no. 4 (1990), pp. 536-46. 

Wolf, Aaron. Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River. Tokyo: The United Nations University Press, 1995. 

Wolf, Aaron, "Water for Peace in the Jordan River Watershed," Natural Resources Journal, vol. 3, no. 3 (July, 1993). 

The World Bank. A Strategy for Managing Water in the Middle East and North Africa. Washington, 1993. 

Zeitouni, N., Becker, N. & Shechter, M. "Sharing water resources in the Middle East: Economic perspectives." special issue of Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 16 No. 4, November 1994. There are papers by D. Yaron, P. Berck and J. Lipow, G. Fishelson, A. Dinar and A. Wolf, R. Howitt, J. Moore, and N. Zeitouni, N. Becker and M. Shechter shechter@econ.haifa.ac.il