The World Bank and Negotiating the Red Sea and Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project
The World Bank and Negotiating the Red Sea and Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project
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世界银行与红海和死海水输送项目谈判
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Erika S. Weinthal
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作者：
Neda A. Zawahri;Erika S. Weinthal
20世纪90年代，世界银行经历了“绿色化”进程，使其更加环保、包容、透明和负责任。因此，世行在谈判过程中专注于遵守其程序，而忽视了政治的作用。通过注重流程，世行淡化了其调解者的角色，从而激励利益相关者承担这一角色。利益相关者自身对结果的既得利益可能会引发对过程完整性的质疑。为了证明这一论点，我们研究了世界银行为以色列、约旦和巴勒斯坦权力机构之间的红海和死海水输送项目实施可行性研究的努力。世行注重过程，忽视传统调解职能，导致可行性研究谈判旷日持久，陷入政治泥潭，让最弱势的利益相关者只能得到象征性的环境合作描述，而无法获得真正的和平红利。
In the 1990s, the World Bank underwent a “greening” process to make it more environmentally conscious, inclusive, transparent, and accountable. Consequently, the Bank has become preoccupied with compliance with its procedures during negotiations while neglecting the role of politics. Through a focus on process, the Bank discounted its role as a mediator, creating incentives for a stakeholder to assume the role. The stakeholder’s own vested interests in outcomes can throw into question the integrity of the process. To demonstrate this argument we examine the World Bank’s efforts to implement a feasibility study for Red Sea and Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. The Bank’s focus on process and neglect of its traditional mediation function led to protracted negotiations over the feasibility study that were mired in politics and left the weakest stakeholder with only symbolic depictions of environmental cooperation rather than actual peace dividends.