Browsing by Author "Swatuk, Larry A."

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    Boundaries of benefit sharing: interpretation and application of substantive rules in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub?basin of the Zambezi Watercourse
    (Springer, 2023) Fatch, Joanna; Bolding, Alex; Swatuk, Larry A.
    questions regarding how riparian states determine �who gets what, where, and why� in a shared watercourse. To facilitate peaceful coexistence, substantive rules��equitable and reasonable utilisation (ERU)� and �the duty to prevent the causing of significant harm�� define rights and responsibilities of riparian states in the utilisation of shared watercourses. The duty of riparian states to cooperate, as a principle of international law, plays an important part in realising these substantive rules. This article critically reflects on the principles underlying transboundary water management by focusing on the interpretation and application of substantive rules in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub-basin of the Zambezi River Basin in Southern Africa. The case study demonstrates how interpretation and application of international water law are generally in line with customary practices, but are subject to highly localised decision contexts which challenge Southern African Development Community (SADC) attempts to establish a firm legal foundation upon which to guide access, use and management across the region�s shared river basins.
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    Theory, change and the search for epistemological courage in shaping a new world order
    (SAGE Publications, 2022) Swatuk, Larry A.
    No matter how narrowly you focus your spatial or temporal lenses, you are bound to catch sight of multiple significant challenges to human community. Many of these challenges are shared, such as Covid-19, though their impacts on individuals and groups are felt unevenly. Some challenges are immediate and existential, such as the wars in Ukraine, Syria, and Yemen. Others, such as race, gender, caste, and class-based inequalities, are deeply embedded in social structures, providing privilege and persecution, and reward and oppression in unequal measures. And climate change, though slower moving, holds out the prospect of leading to total social collapse. How to make sense of these dramatic changes? This essay explores the adequacy of theories of IR and G/IPE in explaining the emergent world (dis)order. It argues that, whether orthodox or critical, theory must find a way to centre humanity within the biosphere if theory is to adequately inform practice.