Why has cooperation between the Central Asian Republics on the issue of transboundary water resources been so hard to achieve?
Week 10 Regional integration and cooperation
In this session we examine the factors which have hindered and facilitated co-operation in post-Soviet Central Asia with a special emphasis on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Seminar Questions
- Why has cooperation between the Central Asian Republics on the issue of transboundary water resources been so hard to achieve?
- To what extent do Central Asian Regional organisations require a larger ‘external’ power to succeed?
Essential Reading:
Bohr, A. (2004) Regionalism in Central Asia: New Geopolitics, Old Regional Order, International Affairs, 80 (3).
Wegerich, K. (2011) Water resources in Central Asia: regional stability or patchy makeup? Central Asian Survey Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2011, 275–290
Dadabaev, T. (2014) Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional Identity Formation from the Perspective of the Central Asia States, Journal of Contemporary China, 2014 Vol. 23, No. 85, 102–11
Additional Reading:
Allison, R (2004) Regionalism, regional structures and security management in Central Asia, International Affairs, 80 (3) 463-483.
Bichsel, C. (2011) Liquid Challenges: Contested Water in Central Asia, Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Volume 12 Issue 1 Fall 2011: Natural Resource Conflicts available online http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1495&context=s dlp
Kassenova, N. (2009) The Shanghai Cooperation Energy Club: Purpose and Prospects in Indra Overland, Heidi Kjaernet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (eds.) Caspian Energy Politics Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Oxford, Routledge.
Linn, J. (2012) Central Asian Regional Integration and Cooperation: Reality or Mirage? Washington D.C. Brookings Institution. Available online: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/10/regional%20integ ration%20and%20cooperation%20linn/10%20regional%20integration%20and%20coop eration%20linn.pdf
Collins, K. (2009) Economic and Security Regionalism among Patrimonial Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Central Asia, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61, No. 2, March 2009, 249–281.
Chung, C.P. (2004) The Shanghai Co-operation Organization: China’s Changing Influence in Central Asia, China Quarterly, 180.
Hurrell, A. (1994) Regionalism in Theoretical Perspective in Louise Fawcett and Andrew Hurrell (eds.) Regionalism in World Politics: regionalisation and international order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.37-73.*
Kassenova, N. (2012) Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Integration: Quick Start, Mixed Results and Uncertain Future, Centre Russie/NEI reports, no. 14 – available online http://www.ifri.org/?page=contribution-detail&id=7439
Kushkumbayev, S. and Kushkumbayeva, A. (2013) Water and Energy Issues in the Context of International and Political Disputes in Central Asia, Chinese Journal of International Law (2013), 211–218
28 Jacoby, V. (2013) If Only It Was Only Water…The Strained Relationship between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Central Asia Policy Brief no. 9. Available online http://centralasiaprogram.org/central-asia-policy-brief-no-9-may-2013/#.UtZgobQt2dk
(2013) Foreign Trade Effects of the Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, Central Asia Economic Paper no. 8. Available online: http://centralasiaprogram.org/central-asia-economic-paper-no-8-may2013/#.UtZiF7Qt2dk
Libman, A. and Ushkalova, D.
Menga, F. (2016) Reconceptualizing hegemony: the circle of hydro-hegemony, Water Policy 18 (2016) 401–418
Rakhimov, M. (2010) Internal and external dynamics of regional cooperation in Central Asia
Spechler, M. (2002) Regional Cooperation in Central Asia, Problems of PostCommunism, vol. 49, no. 6, November/December 2002, pp. 42–47.
Yesdauletova, A. and Yesdauletov, A. (2014) The Eurasian Union: Dynamics and Difficulties of post-Soviet integration, Trames, 18(68/63), 1, 3–17.
Zakhirova, L. (2013) The International Politics of Water Security in Central Asia, Europe-Asia Studies, l. 65, No. 10, December 2013, 1994–2013