The Risks of Hydro-Hegemony: Turkey’s Environmental Policies and Shared Water Resources in the South Caucasus

IF 0.5 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-11-18 DOI:10.30965/23761202-20220016

H. Sakal

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Abstract

The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war intensified the debates about regional integration and political rivalries in the South Caucasus. In the changing geopolitical setting of the region, Turkey’s regional environmental policies contradict its cooperation-based and friendly relations with the regional states. Taking a recent hydropower development project in the Kura-Araks River basin initiated by the government of Turkey as a case study, this study reviews Turkey’s transboundary water management policies in the region in connection with its political ties with the regional countries. This article argues that Turkey uses its relative power in the regional hydropolitical relations by exploiting current and historical issue-linkages and benefit-sharing options, and that the intention to act like a hydro-hegemon in the South Caucasus will negatively impact Turkey’s position in intended regional cooperation schemes and long-established strategic partnerships with the regional countries, especially Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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水力霸权的风险：土耳其在南高加索的环境政策和共享水资源

2020年的纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫战争加剧了关于南高加索地区一体化和政治对抗的辩论。在该地区不断变化的地缘政治背景下，土耳其的地区环境政策与其与该地区国家基于合作的友好关系相矛盾。本研究以土耳其政府最近在库拉-阿拉克斯河流域启动的一个水电开发项目为例，回顾了土耳其在该地区的跨界水管理政策及其与该地区国家的政治关系。本文认为，土耳其通过利用当前和历史问题的联系和利益分享选择，利用其在区域地缘政治关系中的相对权力，在南高加索充当水力霸主的意图将对土耳其在预定的区域合作计划以及与该地区国家，特别是阿塞拜疆和格鲁吉亚建立的长期战略伙伴关系中的地位产生负面影响。

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Caucasus Survey Arts and Humanities-History

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1.30

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.