Strategic Investigations of Water Conflicts in the Middle East

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 355-376

  Hipel, Keith W ^a   Kilgour, D Marc ^b   Kinsara, Rami A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Coalition analysis; Conflict resolution; Decision makers; Euphrates; Graph Model; Iraq; Middle East; Strategic analysis; Syria; Third Party; Turkey; Water conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872067165     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9325-3     Document Type: Article

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