Nature does not respect national borders; yet human beings seem incapable of managing their affairs without them. Nature has also not endowed every place on earth or every nation with the same type and amount of resources. Herein lie the roots of interstate conflict and cooperation over essential and scarce natural resources, such as freshwater. In Central Asia both possibilities will continue to exist for a long time.
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Arun P. Elhance (1997) studied this question.
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