Water: Asia's New Battleground by Brahma ChellaneyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is an ambitious, nay, overly ambitious book. Brahma Chellaney covers inter- and intra-state water conflicts across Asia (including the Middle East!)
Riverine issues have interested me since I traveled along the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River in Tibet and India. No wonder why Tibet matters so much to China: by controlling Tibet, China controls the headwaters of the great rivers of Asia. Chellaney devotes a whole chapter to the Tibetan Plateau. Sadly, but in time-honored Indian fashion, India ceded its advantages to India.
The maps in this book are not particularly useful and illustrative of the text.
Water: Asia's New Battleground won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award.
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