Executive Summary The paper analyzes the process of resolving interstate water disputes. Indian water-dispute settlement mechanisms are ambiguous and opaque. A cooperative bargaining framework suggests that water can be shared efficiently, with compensating transfers as necessary, if initial water rights are well-defined, and if institutions to facilitate and implement cooperative agreements ar...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union, and emergence new States in Central Asia Southern Caucasus has created political security dynamics these regions. latter was affected by Nagorno-Karabakh conflict former is confronted threat over shared water resources. More than twenty years later, protracted remains unresolved overshadows water-related problems; despite this, dispute a very important facto...

In evolution, exploitative strategies often create a paradox in which the most successful individual strategy "within" the group is also the most detrimental strategy "for" the group, potentially resulting in extinction. With regard to sexual conflict, the overexploitation of females by harmful males can yield similar consequences. Despite these evolutionary implications, little research has ad...