1. Abeer R.Y. Abazeed Phd Reseacher, Leiden University
Epistemic Community in the Eastern Nile Basin: Promoting the Basin Cooperation or National Interests?
Abeer R.Y. Abazeed
Phd Reseacher, Leiden University

2. The Nile politics is deeply dependent on scientists who feed decision makers with the possibility of cooperation and the framework of negotiations.

3. Current Challenge 1967 Hydromet project 1992 TECCONILE 1999 ENTRO
NELSAP-CU
Current Challenge

4. Outline 1- The role of scientists in international relations.
2- Epistemic community.
3- Maps of the network of published articles on GERD.

5. 1-The global environmental challenges and state capability
eco-migrants
controlling nation resources
legitimacy
State Sovereignty

6. Cooperating with non-state actors
Ecological Interdependence
Borderless environmental change
Limited resilient capabilities
Regime Complex
competing states' interests
Access to new information

7. 2- Epistemic community: characteristics and purposes
"… a network of professionals with recognized expertise and competence in a particular domain and an authoritative claim to policy-relevant knowledge within that domain or issue-area“ (Peter Haas ,1992, 3)

8. normative and causal beliefs
Characteristics
Purposes
sharing
normative and causal beliefs
validity of knowledge
common policies
State & social POWER
Uncertainty + complexity

10. Typologies of scientific collectives on regional level
To create scientific platforms
Exchange ideas and analysis
Independent
To support decision making in the regional institution
By Regional Institution
to produce new regional governance model
to amend or develop the existing one.
scientists themselves or scientific organizations
by the regional institution as a task force to develop certain data and knowledge
Techno-scientific

11. 3- Maps of the network of published articles on GERD
Methodology
Results
Web of science (WoS) Core Collection is citation indexes that cover both natural and social sciences.
the software VOSviewer.
the keyword "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam"
26 documents: articles, proceeding papers, editorial materials and reviews; however, the articles are the main bulk.
The first document was published in 2014

12. Co-authorship by country

13. Citation by organizations

14. co-occurrence of all words in the documents

15. The international scientific publications on GERD, the current challenge in the Nile, indicate the absence of epistemic community representing the Eastern Nile Basin.
However, the map of published documents shows the centrality of Ethiopian organizations which have many links with other international organizations

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