Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water diplomacy and conflict management? / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Susanne Schmeier
The legal role and context of river basin organizations / Owen McIntyre
Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the Great Lakes Basin / Victoria Pebbles
Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United States-Mexico border / Maria Elena Giner and Gabriel E. Eckstein
Process aspects of the development of shared waters agreements : the Columbia River Treaty / Kim Ogren and Aaron T. Wolf
International river basin organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal international river basins : past, present, and future / Richard Kyle Paisley, Riley T. Denoon, and Marguerite de Chaisemartin
The Niger Basin : is development raising the stakes of cooperation? / Luca Ferrini
Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin : the key role of the Nile Basin Initiative over the past 20 years / Ana Elisa Cascão, Wubalem Fekade, Malte Grossmann, and Abdulkarim Seid
Managing abundance : CICOS and the Congo / Tobias von Lossow
Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization : a case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine / Samer A. Talozi and Natasha Westheimer
Water diplomacy in the Helmand River Basin : exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the shadow of anarchy / Mohsen Nagheeby and Alistair Rieu-Clarke
Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea / Jenniver Sehring and Saghit Ibatullin
The Mekong River Commission as a water diplomat / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Denise Michèle Staubli
China in international institutions for water governance / Lei Xie and Zha Daojiong
Managing disagreements in European basins : what role for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? / Susanne Schmeier and Ivan Zavadsky
Conclusion: Managing tensions and sharing benefits : international rivers in conflict and cooperation / David Grey, Anoulak Kittikhoun, and Susanne Schmeier.