Ahi Evran Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

Yazarlar: Mürsel BAYRAM

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Political Ecology,Israel,South Sudan,Nile Basin

Özet: This paper aims to analyse the relations between the State of Israel and the Republic of South Sudan in the context of political ecology. It is a well-known fact that Israel faces a series of environmental degradation problems, notably water scarcity and pollution, and those problems affect the country’s relations with African states in the Nile basin. Occupying approximately 20% of the total area of the basin, South Sudan appears to be a good alternative to solve the water problem of Israel in the long term. However, whether water problem is the principal factor in Israeli-South Sudanese relations is a disputable issue, as the two states have forged a supra-ecological political and military cooperation. To what extent the ecological factors account for the Israeli-South Sudanese rapprochement depends, therefore, on how to analyse the concomitance of ecological pressures and political-military strategies.

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