Publication

This paper shows that countries that share rivers have a higher risk of military disputes between them. Using a new dataset on shared water resources, the authors test whether dyads with rivers running across the boundary should be expected to give rise to resource scarcity related conflict scenarios, or if dyads where the river forms the boundary may fight because river boundaries are fluid and fuzzy. The authors find support for the neomalthusian theory of water conflict but not for the fuzzy boundary scenario.