1. Breaking Waters: The Birth of a New Nile State . STEPS Centre Water Seminar Brighton, 22 February 2011 Ana Elisa Cascão Stockholm International Water Institute – SIWI (Sweden) Center of African Studies – ISCTE (Portugal)

2. Nile River Basin THE REGION 10 riparian states 160 million inhabitants Underdeveloped economies Conflict-stricken region Low levels of regional integration

5. Nile Basin Political Economy pre-2011 Changing realpolitik : new geopolitical actors, corridors, dynamics, ... ‘ Land grabbing’: Growing economic interest for Nile natural resources Regional integration: Towards economic multilaterism Unilateralism: Unilateral hydraulic development

6. Hydropolitics pre-2011 Official ‘ diad’ UpstreamBloc

7. 2010: Cooperation and changing power relations Trojan Horse of upstreamers

8. 2011: ‘Revolutions’ in the making in the Nile Basin Velvet divorce in Sudan Popular uprising in Egypt

9. Southern Sudan: the 11th Nile riparian Border demarcation (as 1956)

10. ...where the White Nile bends

11. Southern Sudan: the political process the post-referendum negotiations

12. Nile Waters: What is in it for Southern Sudan?

13. A midstream or an upstream riparian? Jonglei Canal

14. When Oil or Water politics mix

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