Transboundary ‘hydro-hegemony’: 10 years later

This article places the theorization and analysis of hydro-hegemony in the context of the scholarship on transboundary water conflict and cooperation. We discuss critiques, developments, and debates in this domain over the past 10 years, focus- ing particularly on the contributions of the London Water Research Group, show- ing how thinking on the theorization and analysis of hydro-hegemony—and hydropolitics—has moved beyond the state-centricity, the tendency to see hegemony as solely negative, and the conceptually hegemonic potential of hydro- hegemony itself. Various strands of international relations theory (realism, neo- institutionalism, critical theory) have left their mark on the London School. Intense interaction between analysts and pragmatic practitioners is found to invite (or incite) eclecticism as well as promote vibrancy.