Title State making and environmental cooperation : linking domestic and international politics in Central Asia / Erika Weinthal

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : map Series Global environmental accord : strategies for sustainability and institutional innovation Global environmental accords. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Aral Sea Crisis -- 2. International Riparian Politics: Concepts and Constraints -- 3. Building Environmental Cooperation under Conditions of Transformation -- 4. Cotton Monoculture as a System of Social Control -- 5. Need for Aid: Failed Reform, Potential Conflict, and the Legacy of Cotton Monoculture -- 6. Willingness to Intervene: Paying the Costs of the Transition -- 7. Reconstructing Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin: Adding and Subtracting Sectors -- 8. Making States through Cooperation -- App. Aral Sea Basin Program Summary The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea shrank. There was an upsurge in dust storms containing toxic salt residue, and a new desert began to replace the sea. At the same time, agricultural runoff rendered the drinking water unfit for human consumption. In this book Erika Weinthal examines how the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have tackled the Aral Sea Basin crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The Amu Darya now flows through three new nation-states, and the Syr Darya through four. This shakeup of political borders created a collective-action problem for the successor states. While they needed to consolidate domestic sovereignty, they also needed to relinquish sovereignty over their water resources in order to develop a joint solution to the desiccation of the Aral Sea. Weinthal examines why they were able to cooperate over their shared water resources. She emphasizes the roles of nonstate actors (international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and bilateral aid organizations) in the building of institutions for regional cooperation and for state formation, shows how cooperation was nested within the state-building process when international third-party actors were involved, and highlights the dispensing of side payments (financial and material resources) by nonstate actors to aid both regional cooperation and state formation Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-269) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Environmental policy -- Asia, Central Environmental management -- Asia, Central -- International cooperation Environmental protection -- Asia, Central -- International cooperation Environmental degradation -- Aral Sea Watershed (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) Post-communism -- Asia, Central SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. Environmental degradation Environmental management -- International cooperation Environmental policy Environmental protection -- International cooperation Post-communism Asia -- Aral Sea Watershed Central Asia Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262285919 0262285916 058544529X 9780585445298

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