Edited by Steven C. Roach, Professor of International Relations, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida, Derrick K. Hudson, Teaching Professor in International Relations, Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Colorado School of Mines and Kaleb Demerew, Non-Resident Scholar, Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hope College, USA

• Contents1 Introduction: Nile Basin politics and its challenges 1Steven C. RoachPART I Managing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam2 State-building on the Nile: domestic politics and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam 19Kaleb Demerew3 The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: technical aspects and prospects for coordinated water management 39Kebreab Ghebremichael and Tirusew Asefa4 Egypt’s Water Policy and the Challenges of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) 64Hamdy A. HassanPART II Regional and international issues5 Beyond the Big Three: national and regional politics of the upstream riparian countries 88Kaleb Demerew and Derrick K. Hudson6 The Washington dissensus: the hegemonic perils of cooperation 110Steven C. Roach7 Emerging legal issues of Nile Basin cooperation 130Edna Udobong8 Regional integration in the Nile Basin in 2038: rethinking the water-energy-food nexus 150Harry Verhoeven and Rawia Tawfik

‘Nile Basin Politics is a valuable contribution to peace and conflict studies, shedding light on the interplay between domestic politics and transboundary resource management. It will be of interest to scholars of hydropolitics, conflict resolution, and regional security in Africa.’