Shalpykova, Gulnara
The Syr Darya River Basin: Cooperation under the Intractable Riparian Dilemma
My research is generally devoted to the problem of cooperation, when geographically adjacent states, in the absence of a central authority and shared interests, decide if, how and why to cooperate with each other on topics related to natural resource use, development or management.
A notion of the problem of cooperation in this research refers to an array of issues and concerns that influence the willingness of such states “to adjust policies to meet the demands of others” (Robert Keohane. After Hegemony…) or, in other words, to cooperate. This set of problems is primarily analysed with relation to a certain category of actors, which remain largely ignored in the literature on international cooperation: developing states.
Such focus of the research will enrich the literature with cases beyond the West-West, West-East or North-South orthodoxy and provide an account for interstate relationships within the developing world.
Dr Matthew Rendall & Professor Sara O'Hara (Geography)
ORS Award, and University of Nottingham Scholarship
Politics of natural resources, disputes over transboundary fresh waters
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Luterbacher, Urs, Valery Kuzmichenok, Gulnara Shalpykova, and Ellen Wiegandt. “Glaciers and Efficient Water Use in Central Asia” in Orlove, Benjamin, Ellen Wiegandt and Brian Luckman. Darkening Peaks. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
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Mamatkanov, Dushen and Gulnara Shalpykova. “Central Asia: the Problem of Cooperation in the Field of Water and Mineral Energy Resources Use.” Proceedings of the International Conference "Water Resources and Water Use Problems in Central Asia and the Caucasus", 41-44. Barnaul: IWEP SB RAN, 2007.
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Shalpykova, Gulnara. “Upstream-Downstream Relations in the Syr Darya River Basin.” In International Conference on Security Challenges in Central Asia, edited by Halim Nezihoglu, Iskender Ormon Uulu, Murat Bakir, 191-196. Bishkek: International Ataturk-Alatoo University, 2004