نزاعات المياه العابرة للحدود في أفريقيا : مقاربة جيوسياسية عبر مفهوم المركب الهيدروسياسي الإقليمي

Abstract EN

At all times and in different parts of the world, water and water management have been a factor of many political and geopolitical stakes.

Africa has not historically been a primary theater for hydropolitical conflicts, but it has faced unprecedented challenges in the management of water resources in recent years, challenges that increasingly imposed themselves as a result of emerging contexts created by-in addition to other factors-the scarcity of safe water and the growing disputes over the right to access and distribution of it in fair and acceptable ways.

this study attempts to understand the dimensions of water conflicts and their existing and potential impacts on security in the African continent by employing the concept of the hydropolitical complex, which enables us to clarify the relationship between water security problems and conflicts in hydro-conflict African geopolitical regions and spaces with high security risks characterized by the presence of several neighboring countries around the waterways or transboundary watersheds.

the vitality of the interests that exist in these regional hydropolitical complexes turns them into a domain in which complex political and security stakes are concentrated, and into a space for bilateral and multilateral diplomatic interests and activities in which water resources have a primary role.