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Network Embeddedness and the Rate of Water Cooperation and Conflict

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This chapter demonstrates the first application of social network theory and statistical network models to international water cooperation and conflict events. It employs dynamic network actor models (DyNAMs) to model both actors’ choices of when to cooperate or act conflictually as well as with whom. It thus represents the first demonstration of coevolving, signed DyNAMs, as well as one of the first empirical and theoretical emphases by an actor-oriented network model of the rate part of the model. The chapter finds that network effects express important endogeneities in existing water event datasets that must be taken into account in future research and policy-making, and that while actors’ embeddedness in cooperative relationships accelerates both cooperation and conflict, embeddedness in conflictual relationships decelerates both, which I call facilitative embeddedness in contrast to normative embeddedness.

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Hollway, J. (2020). Network Embeddedness and the Rate of Water Cooperation and Conflict. In: Fischer, M., Ingold, K. (eds) Networks in Water Governance. Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46769-2_4

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