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标题：International water security: Domestic threats and opportunities (Nevelina I. Pachova, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Libor Jansky. United Nations University Press, Tokyo, Japan. ISBN 978-92-808-1150-6, 308 pages; March 2008)
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作者：Mark Giordano
期刊名称：Water Alternatives
印刷版ISSN：1965-0175
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：292-293
出版社：Water Alternatives Association
摘要：Two conceptual challenges to the study and practice of international water management emerged, or solidified, after the Cold War. The first was the challenge to traditional ideas of security. From this emerged the notion of the environment as a security issue (Tuchman Mathews, 1989) and, in particular, the idea that human security is, among other things, a function of environmental resources and the manner in which we cooperate, or not, over their use. The second was a challenge to mainstream international relations theory, which considered the state as the primary actor in international relations and regarded domestic and international affairs as largely disparate issues. The critiques of this "territorial trap" (Agnew 1994) were based on the growing role of non‐state actors – ranging from domestic civil society organizations to the amorphous forces of globalization – in issues which crossed national boundaries. While water has been a dominant theme in the environmental security literature, until recently (e.g. Furlong 2006) international waters have continued to be couched largely in traditional, state‐centered language.