Theorizing Transboundary Waters in International Relations

 Kinga Szálka, PhD is an Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in International Relations Theory, Security Studies, and the Post-Soviet Region. Strong education professional with a PhD focused on Water Security in Central Asia from Corvinus University of Budapest.
 Máté Szalai, Ph.D. received his Bachelor and Master degree in the International Studies program at Corvinus University of Budapest, where he is currently an senior lecturer. He started to work at the predecessor of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a project coordinator in 2014, then as a researcher from 2015 and as the coordinator of the Middle Eastern and North African research program from 2017. Besides the general political, economic and social developments of the MENA region, his primary fields of research include the Persian Gulf and the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars. He is the co-author of the book entitled "The Caliphate of the Islamic State" published in 2016. He obtained his PhD in 2019 in the International Relations Doctoral School at Corvinus University of Budapest. Beyond MENA affairs, he also researches the foreign policy of small states as well as their theoretical and practical possibilities and challenges.

 Part I. Revisiting 'Grand Theories.-1. Introduction: Mixing Water and International Relations Theory.-  2. The Theories of International Relations and The Hy-dropolitical Cycle: The Hydro-trap and the Anarchic Nature of Water Conflict.- 3.Exploring the Sub-state-Supra-state Nexus in Transboundary Water Politics.- 4.Trust in Transboundary Water Cooperation: A Social Construc-tivist Approach.- Part II. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters.- 5.Hydro-Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia: The Case of the Lancang/Mekong River.- 6.Reframing Trans-boundary Water Security.- 7.Water for Peace Revisited: Reconsidering Securitization's Role in Water Cooperation.- Part III. Transboundary Water Diplomacy.- 8.The Evolution of Water Diplomacy Frameworks: The Eu-phrates-Tigris Basin as a Case Study.- 9.Is Salmon Surprise on the Table? Indigenous Rights and Multi-Stakeholder Diplomacy in the Renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty.- 10.The Role of Data Sharing in Transboundary Waterways: The Case of the Helmand River Basin.- Part IV. New Perspectives on Transboundary Waters.- 11.Discourses and Hydropolitics: Stock-Taking and Future Directions.-12.The Upstream-Downstream Structural Disparity and Transbound-ary Challenges of Public Health.-  13.Transboundary Water Management Among Small Island Develop-ing States: Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation.- 14.Conclusion: The Role of IR Theories in Trans-boundary Water Politics.