River Flows Through It

Selina Ho researches and writes on Chinese politics and foreign policy, focusing on water disputes and infrastructural politics. She has published widely on China’s water disputes, and is the author of two books, Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (co-author, University of California Press, 2020). She is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

• Introduction: Comparing transboundary river cooperation in Asia Selina Ho1. Taking Stock: International Water Conflict and Cooperation: challenges and opportunitiesJacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Jennifer C. Veilleux and Aaron T. WolfPart 1: Water disputes and cooperation in Asia 2. China’s transboundary river policies towards Kazakhstan: issue-linkages and incentives for cooperationSelina Ho3. China’s "old and new" Mekong River politics: the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation from a comparative benefit-sharing perspectiveSebastian Biba4. Assessing the Indus Waters Treaty from a comparative perspectiveNeda Zawahri and David Michel5. The Heilongjiang (Amur) River in Sino-Russian relations: from conflict towards cooperation Wan Wang and Xing Li6. River activism, policy entrepreneurship and transboundary water disputes in Asia Pichamon Yeophantong7. Dam Diplomacy? China’s new neighbourhood policy and Chinese dam-buildingCarla P. Freeman8. Multi-track diplomacy: current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River BasinYumiko Yasuda, Douglas Hill, Dipankar Aich, Patrick Huntjens and Ashok SwainPart II: Lessons from Africa, Europe, and the United States 9. Infrastructure development and the economics of cooperation in the Eastern NileMarc Jeuland, Xun Wu and Dale Whittington10. The remarkable restoration of the Rhine: plural rationalities in regional water politics Marco Verweij11. The dilemma of autonomy: decentralization and water politics at the subnational level Scott M. Moore