Energy & Resources
Water is shifting from background infrastructure to strategic constraint. Scarcity and volatility are hardening borders, stressing treaties, and creating trade dependencies. The geopolitics of water is less about “water wars” than governance under pressure.
Energy & Resources
The Tigris–Euphrates basin once ran on an unwritten truce: seasonal releases, quiet committees, and downstream improvisation. Climate volatility and upstream control have erased that margin. Here’s how the “vanishing pact” failed — and what a workable order in a hotter basin would require.
Energy & Resources
The Mekong ignores borders, but politics do not. Upstream dams, Cambodia’s canal plan, and rising salinity in Vietnam’s delta are reshaping regional leverage and exposing how climate risk now sets the terms of food and energy security in Southeast Asia.
Energy & Resources
Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam is more than a mega-project. It’s a test of sovereignty, a flashpoint for Nile politics, and a showcase of China’s growing role in the Global South.