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Critically analyse how geohydropolitics influences geopolitics of South Asia.

  • 15 marks
  • Political Aspects

Water in South Asia is not merely an ecological resource; it is a primary currency of national power, an instrument of asymmetrical coercion, and a structural determinant of interstate conflict and cooperation. Viewed through Mark Zeitoun and Jeroen Warner’s Framework of Hydro-Hegemony, transboundary river governance is rarely dictated by international water law alone; rather, it…

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  • 1. The Spatial Hydrological Structure of South Asia
  • 2. Major Theatres of Transboundary Hydropolitical Friction
  • A. The China–India Front: Upper-Riparian Hydro-Hegemony
  • B. The India–Pakistan Front: Breakdown of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT 1960)
  • C. The India–Bangladesh Front: Deltaic Vulnerabilities and Treaty Sunset
  • 3. Structural Comparison of South Asian Transboundary River Treaties
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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