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- Title
EXPLORING THE NILE WATER DISCOURSE IN ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT: SECURITIZATION OR DEVELOPMENTAL?
- Authors
SIRAW, Demas Dinku
- Abstract
For centuries, the Nile water has been at the heart of deteriorated relations between Egypt and Ethiopia and, more than ever before, this tension has reached to its climax since the inauguration ceremony of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project. The objective of this article was, therefore, to critically analyze the Nile water discourse, in Egypt and Ethiopia, often leading to irreconcilable interests and, by so doing, to add some insights on its viability to justify the resource curse and resource scarcity literatures in the field of security and conflict studies. Through a qualitative document review and discourse analysis of the key speeches of state officials in Egypt and Ethiopia, it was found out that the successful securitization of the Nile water in Egypt and the ongoing securitizing move of the same water resource in Ethiopia has been further complicating the Nile issue by producing more irreconcilable interests and tensions among the riparian states. Therefore it is recommended that rather than pushing a merely water resource issue to the level of an existential threat it is better for the riparian states to primarily focus on improving the life condition of their people (human security) and such reorientation will ultimately lead to a sustainable winwin solution for the whole Nile basin states.
- Subjects
EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; RESOURCE curse; DISCOURSE analysis; HUMAN security; WATER supply; AQUATIC exercises; DISCOURSE; INAUGURATION of United States presidents
- Publication
Journal of Public Administration, Finance & Law, 2023, Issue 27, p418
- ISSN
2285-2204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47743/jopafl-2023-27-33