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urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-416462 2026-03-31 urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-416462/mods Three lenses on water war, peace and hegemonic struggle on the Nile Warner J.F. 109311094 0000-0003-2847-8770 0000000109770560 aut text info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2012 10.1504/IJSSOC.2012.044672 2-s2.0-84857244221 en The present contribution will argue that 'water wars' and 'water peace' are not objective 'facts' but narratives reflecting competing world views. The two narratives are lenses shedding different lights on the same phenomenon. In addition to the narratives underlying the water-peace debate a third narrative can be adduced, that has a different, critical perspective on water wars, that has a very different interpretation of water conflict, looking at how local forces express global hegemonic struggles. Each of these has a different and credible account on why there has been no violence between states, and the role of hegemons and regimes in this. This paper pays special attention to regime formation. While the neo-realist and liberal-institutionalist schools have seen a gradual approximation since the 1980s (the neo-neo-consensus) they have different views of international regime cooperation and its drivers, notably the stabilising role of hegemons. The third, critical narrative again revives a different, underexposed strand in regimes analysis. Since 'regimes begin at home' (Waterbury, 2002), this paper also looks at the internal dynamics in Egypt WASS Chair Disaster Studies Egypt Hegemony Hydro-politics Narratives Regimes Water peace Water wars WASS Leerstoel Rampenstudies International Journal of Sustainable Society 4 1/2 173 193 17562538 urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-416462/obj 2026-03-31 http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess