Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water diplomacy and conflict management? / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Susanne Schmeier -- The legal role and context of river basin organizations / Owen McIntyre -- Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the Great Lakes Basin / Victoria Pebbles -- Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United States-Mexico border / Maria Elena Giner and Gabriel E. Eckstein -- Process aspects of the development of shared waters agreements : the Columbia River Treaty / Kim Ogren and Aaron T. Wolf -- International river basin organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal international river basins : past, present, and future / Richard Kyle Paisley, Riley T. Denoon, and Marguerite de Chaisemartin -- The Niger Basin : is development raising the stakes of cooperation? / Luca Ferrini -- Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin : the key role of the Nile Basin Initiative over the past 20 years / Ana Elisa Cascão, Wubalem Fekade, Malte Grossmann, and Abdulkarim Seid -- Managing abundance : CICOS and the Congo / Tobias von Lossow -- Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization : a case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine / Samer A. Talozi and Natasha Westheimer -- Water diplomacy in the Helmand River Basin : exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the shadow of anarchy / Mohsen Nagheeby and Alistair Rieu-Clarke -- Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea / Jenniver Sehring and Saghit Ibatullin -- The Mekong River Commission as a water diplomat / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Denise Michèle Staubli -- China in international institutions for water governance / Lei Xie and Zha Daojiong -- Managing disagreements in European basins : what role for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? / Susanne Schmeier and Ivan Zavadsky -- Conclusion: Managing tensions and sharing benefits : international rivers in conflict and cooperation / David Grey, Anoulak Kittikhoun, and Susanne Schmeier.

"This book addresses RBOs' role in water diplomacy and conflict management in the broader context of cooperation over shared water resources. Through a theoretical framework, global overview and numerous case studies, it examines what role RBOs can and have played in addressing disagreements and conflicts and which approaches, tools and processes they have used in doing so"-- Provided by publisher.

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