Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management
Brassett J. Akmadi M. Sternberg T.
2023Routledge
International Journal of Water Resources Development
2023#39Issue 3361 - 381 pp.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and infrastructural development has led to growing concerns regarding the future of Central Asia’s water resources. However, few attempts have been made to assess the impacts this will have on specific transboundary basins within the region. This article explores how the context of the BRI transcends its physical impacts within the Ili and Irtysh basins, creating a sanctioned discourse that forecloses the possibility of ‘successful’ negotiations at an official level. As such, pathways to transboundary water management that exist beyond the negotiations are shown to have greater plausibility and potential effectiveness.
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) , China , Kazakhstan , Transboundary water negotiation , water security
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Water Science, Policy and Management, Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
ISCTE–University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Water Science
Department of Sociology and Social Work
Centre for International Studies
ISCTE–University Institute of Lisbon
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