Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan

Download or read book Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan written by Philip Jan Schäfer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived. The analysis is based on the assumption that from human security perspective common solutions for urgent problems can be derived more easily than out of a perspective of national security. Yet it is acknowledged that according to a new security perspective different security threats are being identified by relevant actors. An empirical analysis of written statements and utterances of the respective security elites establishes the methodological tool for the identification of human security discourses in Israel and Jordan. Subsequently it is estimated how far water is presented as a matter of national security in Israel and Jordan using the theory of securitization.