Table of Contents

Introduction: Comparing transboundary river cooperation in Asia

Selina Ho

1. Taking Stock: International Water Conflict and Cooperation: challenges and opportunities

Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Jennifer C. Veilleux and Aaron T. Wolf

Part 1: Water disputes and cooperation in Asia

2. China’s transboundary river policies towards Kazakhstan: issue-linkages and incentives for cooperation

Selina Ho

3. China’s "old and new" Mekong River politics: the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation from a comparative benefit-sharing perspective

Sebastian Biba

4. Assessing the Indus Waters Treaty from a comparative perspective

Neda Zawahri and David Michel

5. The Heilongjiang (Amur) River in Sino-Russian relations: from conflict towards cooperation

Wan Wang and Xing Li

6. River activism, policy entrepreneurship and transboundary water disputes in Asia

Pichamon Yeophantong

7. Dam Diplomacy? China’s new neighbourhood policy and Chinese dam-building

Carla P. Freeman

8. Multi-track diplomacy: current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River Basin

Yumiko Yasuda, Douglas Hill, Dipankar Aich, Patrick Huntjens and Ashok Swain

Part II: Lessons from Africa, Europe, and the United States

9. Infrastructure development and the economics of cooperation in the Eastern Nile

Marc Jeuland, Xun Wu and Dale Whittington

10. The remarkable restoration of the Rhine: plural rationalities in regional water politics

Marco Verweij

11. The dilemma of autonomy: decentralization and water politics at the subnational level

Scott M. Moore

About the Author

Selina Ho researches and writes on Chinese politics and foreign policy, focusing on water disputes and infrastructural politics. She has published widely on China’s water disputes, and is the author of two books, Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (co-author, University of California Press, 2020). She is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.