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• See, Peter Gleick, “Water and Conflict: Freshwater Resources and International Security”, International Security Vol. 18, No. 1 (Summer 1993), pp. 79-112; Thomas Homer-Dixon, “Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases”, International Security Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer 1994), pp. 5-40; Mark Zeitoun, Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, London, I.B. Tauris, 2008.
• Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael, Government and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 17-43.
• James Russell (ed.), Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics and Economics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 27-29.
• Alan Richards and John Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East, 3rd edition, Boulder, Westview Press, 2008, pp. 144-145.
• Robert North, “Toward a Framework for the Analysis of Scarcity and Conflict”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1977), pp. 569-591.
• Homer-Dixon, “Environmental Scarcities”, p. 36.
• Julie Matthaei, “Rethinking Scarcity: Neoclassicism, Neo-Malthusianism, and Neo- Marxism”, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1984), pp. 81-94. 8 Ibid.
• See, Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan, Agricultural Development: An International Perspective, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1985.
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, “The Ingenuity Gap: Can Poor Countries Adapt to Resource Scarcity?”, Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 (September 1995), p. 1.
• Homer-Dixon, “Environmental Scarcities”, p. 9.
• North, “Analysis of Scarcity and Conflict”.
• Thomas Homer-Dixon and Jessica Blitt, Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population and Scarcity, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998, p. 33.
• Ismail Serageldin, “Surviving Scarcity: Sustainable Management of Water Resources”, Harvard International Review, Vol., 18 No. 3 (Summer 1996), pp. 50-53.
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, “On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict”, International Security, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1991), p. 78. 16 Ibid., p. 82. 17 Ibid., p.110.
• the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea and a second canal which would link the Dead Sea with the Red Sea. The proposed project would have been cheaper to construct than the Suez Canal and would have provided a link to the Indian Ocean at a time when there was none. The canal, obviously, was never constructed.
• Hana Namrouqa, “Experts Say Red-Dead Concerns can be Addressed”, Jordan Times, 14 June 2010.
• See, Marwan Kardoosh, The Institutional Dimension of the Success of Jordanian QIZs, Amman, Jordan Centre for Public Policy Research and Dialogue, 2006.
• Allan, Middle East Water Question, p. 45.
• Rami Abdelrahman, “Two Leaders Launch Al Wihdeh Dam”, Jordan Times, 10 February 2004.
• Agreement Between The Republic of Syria and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Concerning the Utilisation of the Yarmouk Waters, Signed in Damascus, 4 June 1953; in force, 8 July 1953, at http://waterlaw.org/documents/regionaldocs/syria-jordan-1953.html [last visited 18 August 2013].
• Anon, “Turkey’s Ozaltin Wins $86 Million Wihdah Dam Tender”, Jordan Times, 10 March 2003.
• Nazim K. El-Naser, Management of Scarce Water Resources: A Middle Eastern Experience, Ashurst, WIT Press, 2009, pp. 51-54. 46 Ibid.
• Joseph Audeh, “Jordan, Syria Reach Agreement on Distribution of Water from Yarmouk River”, Al-Shorfa News, 10 March 2009.
• Jordan - Ministry of Trade and Industry, Trade and Investment Information System database.
• Laurie Brand, Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 152-195.