Relações internacionais e recursos hídricos: a securitização da água por Israel na Palestina

Abstract

The theme of water resources and international relations has several consolidated studies, providing an overview of the situation of resources at state, regional and global levels. However, studies that map and analyze the actions and constructive process of securitization towards water issues represent a gap in the bibliography. From this perspective, the present work aims to understand the construction of water securitization by the State of Israel in the region of Palestine after the Israeli establishment in the region, in 1948. Thus, the research seeks to contribute to this gap, and stem from the hypothesis that the State of Israel securitizes water resources in the territory of Palestine through potential mechanisms that allow inferring that water in the region should be a matter linked to security and state control. These mechanisms are classified as linguistic, institutional and structural, based on the typology created by Itay Fischhendler (2015). The Palestinian-Israeli case was chosen because both countries share

transboundary water resources with each other, with a history of disputes, in addition to non- ideal water indices, which generates a propitious environment for the investigation of a

securitization process. Specifically, a contextualization of the theme of water resources in international relations is made, as well as an analysis of water relations between Israel and Palestine, examining the content of laws and military orders and their practical results in terms of security. Therefore, methodologically, the work uses a qualitative case study, making a bibliographic review and using document analysis to examine the expression, through the aforementioned mechanisms, of the water securitization process by Israel in Palestine.