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Now in an updated edition, this pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security.
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Introduction: Our Most Precious Resource under Threat
Chapter 1: The Specter of Water Wars
Chapter 2: The Power of Water
Chapter 3: The Future of Water
Chapter 4: Changing Water Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict
Chapter 5: Shaping Water for Peace and Profit
Appendix A: Web Links to International Water Norms
Appendix B: Genuine Intercountry Water-Sharing Treaties Currently in Effect
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Brahma Chellaney is a strategic thinker and a geostrategist tracking major international trends. He is a professor of strategic studies at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, a fellow of the Nobel Institute in Oslo, a trustee of the National Book Trust, and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India and an advisor to India's National Security Council.
As a specialist on international strategic issues, he has held appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University. He has also been a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at
the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC.
Chellaney is the author of nine books, including Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan and Water: Asia's New Battleground, winner of the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award.
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Now in an updated edition, this pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security.
