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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.

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Abeer R.Y. Abazeed Phd Reseacher, Leiden University

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  1. 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

  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 State Sovereignty

  6. Cooperating with non-state actors

  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. Characteristics Purposes State & social POWER Uncertainty + complexity

  9. Typologies of scientific collectives on regional level

  10. 3- Maps of the network of published articles on GERD Methodology Results 26 documents: articles, proceeding papers, editorial materials and reviews; however, the articles are the main bulk. The first document was published in 2014 • 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" • 2011-2017

  11. Co-authorship by country

  12. Citation by organizations

  13. co-occurrence of all words in the documents

  14. 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

  15. Still not assembled puzzle

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