Securitization of Water in Central Asia:
Insights from the Regional Water Security Complex
Abstract:
Central Asia is revealing itself as an area where the problem of access to water and its current regional dynamics are almost at a radically critical level, where the potential risk of water disputes is still one of the highest in the world. Therefore, water scarcity issues and challenges triggered by the Aral Sea syndrome, the existing water mismanagement system, infrastructural and investment projects of dams and water reservoirs (Rogun, Naryn, Kambarata, Toktogul, etc.) and their transformation towards an existential threat will be analyzed within the securitization prism through the selected speech acts. This article will contribute to developing a new analytical framework of Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) and the securitization theory in water stress. The efforts undertaken in this article will ultimately lead to the development of a new approach to issues of water security and hydro politics within the concept of the Regional Water Security Complex (RWSC) on the example of the Central Asian region. The main research question will be to what extent water, as an immanent feature of this complex, is politicized and securitized. An important question will also be how the formulated security language indicates the existential nature of water as a security problem in the region.
Keywords: water security, water stress, water scarcity, Regional Water Security Complex, securitization, Central Asia
Introduction and methodological framework
In recent decades, water security has become a vital issue of analysis and publications at the regional and global level (see Lankford et al., 2013; Pahl-Wostl et al., 2016; Brears, 2021; Biswas & Tortajada, 2022; Bhuiyan et al., 2022). One of the reasons for this situation is undoubtedly the existential nature of the threat of a lack of water in the world, which, in this article, is coined as the syndrome of a lack of access to water.
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Securitization of Water in Central Asia:
Insights from the Regional Water Security Complex
Abstract:
Central Asia is revealing itself as an area where the problem of access to water and its current regional dynamics are almost at a radically critical level, where the potential risk of water disputes is still one of the highest in the world. Therefore, water scarcity issues and challenges triggered by the Aral Sea syndrome, the existing water mismanagement system, infrastructural and investment projects of dams and water reservoirs (Rogun, Naryn, Kambarata, Toktogul, etc.) and their transformation towards an existential threat will be analyzed within the securitization prism through the selected speech acts. This article will contribute to developing a new analytical framework of Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) and the securitization theory in water stress. The efforts undertaken in this article will ultimately lead to the development of a new approach to issues of water security and hydro politics within the concept of the Regional Water Security Complex (RWSC) on the example of the Central Asian region. The main research question will be to what extent water, as an immanent feature of this complex, is politicized and securitized. An important question will also be how the formulated security language indicates the existential nature of water as a security problem in the region.
Keywords: water security, water stress, water scarcity, Regional Water Security Complex, securitization, Central Asia
Introduction and methodological framework
In recent decades, water security has become a vital issue of analysis and publications at the regional and global level (see Lankford et al., 2013; Pahl-Wostl et al., 2016; Brears, 2021; Biswas & Tortajada, 2022; Bhuiyan et al., 2022). One of the reasons for this situation is undoubtedly the existential nature of the threat of a lack of water in the world, which, in this article, is coined as the syndrome of a lack of access to water.
to read the full article please click on https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/images/pliki/ppsy/53-1/ppsy2024111.pdf
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