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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE NILE DILEMMAS
He also provides a road map on how to move away from the zero-sum game of the past to mutually beneficial environment of collaboration. Nile Dilemmas Captures the outstanding issues of contention which hover over the Nile in order to avert potential future conflicts. it is profound, well-informed and constructive contribution to the scholarship on the Nile and regional relations which should be read by diplomats, scholars and students of international relations ,Nile history, law and the politics and economics of water. Dr.Z.Kwenga, Research fellow Uppsala University Prof. Kinfe Abraham's latest book on the Nile Argues that significant progress has been made during the Hosni Mobaruk presidency vis-a-vis the of the past which was less transparent and more confrontational. Nevertheless, the scholar also makes it a boundary clear in the Nile Dilemmas that the Ultimate benchmark of the current improved cooperative mood is that an agreement is signed on the allocation dustbin of past failures and amine of precious sobering lessons for the failure. Ahmed Rajab, Editor Africa Analysis London, UK The Nile Dilemmas puts the Nile issue in a historical context and in relation with other transboundary Rivers; describes the problems around the river and brings out the substantive issues of Discord and cooperation; evaluates the negative effective of past polices; and examines the internationalization of the Nile issue particularly in the context of the middle East. Further, it looks at ways of finding a workable formula of equity that can help trash out all seeds of discord and lead to rapprochement. it is a powerful book which policy makers and practitioners, scholars and diplomats should read for an insightful and correct understanding of the historical and current ramifications of the Nile issue. T.W.Gabriel in a Review in the African Economist No.19 2003 Library of Congress Classification: Hydropolitics, Hydrology, History, Politics, international relations, Nile Basin Countries, Areas of Cooperation, the NBI and food Security. ISBN-200312071-6 |
