GERD: New Norms of Cooperation in the Nile Basin?
Publisher: Water International
Author(s): Ana Elisa Cascão and Alan Nicol
Date: 2016
Topics: Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Governance, Renewable Resources
Countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
This article analyzes the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam both as an outcome of shifts in the regional hydropolitical dynamics in the past decade and as a catalyst of future cooperation developments in the Nile Basin region. First, it analyzes the GERD in the context of changing power relations, including a critical discussion of the role of multilateral cooperation process and norms. Second, it examines the GERD as a shaper of future hydropolitical dynamics, and how the complex trilateral cooperative process around the GERD (2011–2015) can represent a constructive step towards wider institutional transboundary cooperation and regional economic integration in the Nile Basin.