Fırat-Dicle Havzasında Kıtlık ve Bağımlılık Sorunsalı Üzerinden Su-Çatışma Tezini Yeniden Okumak
Testing the Water - Conflict Thesis in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin Through the Problematic of Scarcity and Dependence

Summary/Abstract: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc, as the notion of an “imminent military conflict” involving the use of nuclear weapons disappeared, a debate began to form over the necessity of changing or transforming the parameters upon which international relations rested as a discipline. In view of that, as arguments were being developed in favor of liberating the discipline from the restrictive security understanding of the realist school of thought and how to elevate environmental problems to a point of significance. Allegations that transboundary water resources have been at the center of international conflicts and predictions about the future resembling the past have focused attention on the basin and wide interstate relations, including that of the Euphrates-Tigris. Political developments that took shape between Syria and Iraq during the 1973-1975 period, and again in 1990 between Turkey and Syria-Iraq, have led to claims that an actual or potential conflict stems from the increasing scarcity of water and riparian dependence in the Euphrates-Tigris basin. When those almost untested claims were put through a critical analysis, as was the case in this study, the conclusion was to treat the asserted linkages between scarcity dependence in the Euphrates-Tigris basin, conflict, and water and conflict as uncertain assumptions.

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