The Nile Development Game Tug-of-War or Benefits for All? /

• Main Author: Samaan, Mina Michel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic development.; Economic policy.; Game theory.; Natural resources.; Regional Development.; Development Policy.; Game Theory.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been gener...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Reviewing the Literature and Setting Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for the Research
• Chapter 3: The Analytic Framework: Modeling the Dilemma of Transboundary River Basins as an Iterated PD Game
• Chapter 4: The Colonial Round: the Opening Scene of Utilizing the Nile Waters Outside Egypt
• Chapter 5: The Cold War Round: Large National Schemes on the Nile in a Polarized World
• Chapter 6: The Post Cold War Round: The Failure to Build an Institutionalized Basin-Wide Cooperation in the Nile
• Chapter 7: The Post-2011 Round: the New Chapter of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Shadow of the Future
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?
• Maps
• References.