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State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)
Erika Weinthal
Hardcover. The MIT Press 2001-02.
ISBN 9780262232203
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Förlagets beskrivning
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to
empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the
rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea
shrank. There was an upsurge in dust storms containing toxic salt residue, and
a new desert began to replace the sea. At the same time, agricultural runoff
rendered the drinking water unfit for human consumption. In this text Erika Weinthal examines how the Central Asian states of
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have tackled
the Aral Sea Basin crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The Amu
Darya now flows through three new nation-states, and the Syr Darya through
four. This shakeup of political borders created a collective-action problem for
the successor states. While they needed to consolidate domestic sovereignty,
they also needed to relinquish sovereignty over their water resources in order
to develop a joint solution to the desiccation of the Aral Sea. Weinthal
examines why they were able to cooperate over their shared water resources. She
emphasizes the roles of nonstate actors (international organizations,
nongovernmental organizations, and bilateral aid organizations) in the building
of institutions for regional cooperation and for state formation, shows how
cooperation was nested within the state-building process when international
third-party actors were involved, and highlights the dispensing of side
payments (financial and material resources) by nonstate actors to aid both
regional cooperation and state formation. In this text Erika Weinthal examines how the Central Asian states of
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have tackled
the Aral Sea Basin crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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