TY - JOUR ID - 142980 TI - Water Diplomacy Role in Easing Iran-Iraq Hydropolitical Tensions JO - فصلنامه بین المللی ژئوپلیتیک JA - IGQ LA - fa SN - 1735-4331 AU - kavianirad, Morad AU - Sadrania, Hasan AU - Nasri Fakhredavood, Sedigheh AU - Hamid, Hussein AD - Department of Political Geography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran AD - Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Strategic Studies, Tehran, Iran. AD - Assistant Professor, Faculty member of Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Spatial Planning and Applied science, Duhok University, Iraq Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 18 IS - 68 SP - 71 EP - 93 KW - water crisis KW - HydroPolitics KW - Water Diplomacy KW - Iran KW - Iraq KW - Tigris River Basin DO - N2 - Environmental sustainability and human settlement are tightly intertwined with water. Therefore, water has had a history-maker function throughout the history of ties between human communities and politico-spatial units. Over the past decades, water consumption has increased in parallel with a reduction in the levels of these strategic resources, thereby orientating the hydro politics-based foreign policy of nations, particularly in low-precipitation regions. In this vein, Iraq’s geographical position is such that several seasonal and permanent rivers running in western Iran flow into its western neighbor, providing for water supply security in some eastern regions of that country. Over the past one and a half-decade, drought-stricken Iran has moved to harvest water flowing out across its western borders, which has consequently reduced water inflow into Iraq and stirred up hydropolitical tensions between the two nations. This research aims to identify effective driving forces in transforming hydropolitical tensions to water cooperation between Iran and Iraq. The functional data required for this research has been gathered by the library-survey method (interview and expert forum) to be analyzed with a combined quantitative-qualitative approach and applying structural analysis. The research found that water diplomacy has a strategic role in reducing hydropolitical tensions. UR - https://journal.iag.ir/article_142980.html L1 - https://journal.iag.ir/article_142980_cc51897db1ca0197932ae27ace553280.pdf ER -