ABSTRACT
This chapter explores both the geographic and economic hypotheses presented in Chapter 3, testing them through a substantial corpus of treaty observations. It analyzes concluded treaties dealing with rivers shared by (only) two states. Centrally, it focuses on rivers that fall under either of the two core configurations: the through-border and border-creator. Employing this pair of configurations enables the systematic testing of this work’s underlying theory and its contingent hypotheses across a substantial catalog of geographically distinct rivers.
