Looking South: Adapting US policy toward the Global South in a time of change
…interests such as combating climate change, bolstering economic development, expanding trade, and enhancing human and national security. In contrast, China has, for instance, invested massively in Africa during the past…
Water Challenges and Cooperative Response in the Middle East and North Africa
…environmental change. Today, growing water demand, decreasing water availability, and deteriorating water quality affect environmental quality, food security, municipal infrastructure, economic development, and overall human security in most societies of…
Water Security in the Himalayan Region: Navigating Opportunities for Joint Prosperity and Conflict Prevention
On October 21, 2019, the EastWest Institute (EWI), together with the Multinational Development Policy Dialogue of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), convened a high-level roundtable dialogue in Brussels, concerning international water security. …
Letters from the Mekong: Toward a Sustainable Water-Energy-Food Future in Cambodia
…in the Mekong and identifies alternative pathways for development which can optimize trade-offs to the water-energy-food nexus. These alternative approaches include basinwide water-energy planning and a deeper incorporation of non-hydropower…
A Breakthrough in Cooperation on the Nile?
…affect its own essential water supplies, threatening the country’s lifeblood. Cairo’s concerns are not unfounded. The dam will hold back a reservoir of 63 billion cubic meters of water, equivalent…
One Ecosystem, Two Countries: Allocating Freshwater Flow for the Sundarbans
…waterways. These waterways and the tree and shrub-covered mudflats they intersperse form a mangrove habitat that functions as a nursery for fish and crustaceans, protects inland areas from storm surges,…
Brian Eyler cited in article about plans to convene the Mekong River Commission to address record low water levels throughout the once mighty Mekong waterway
…the water level is lower than in the other years, and the fish only lay egg in the deep water – so the fish doesn’t get eggs here any more,”…
Seismic Shift Addresses Understanding Change in the Middle East
…rely on a single theory of change or on quantitative data as a predictor of instability. Journalists with deep regional experience were the most open to notions of change. NGOs…