Social Planner's Solution for the Caspian Sea Conflict

    Authors

    K. Madani; M. Sheikhmohammady; S. Mokhtari; M. Moradi;P. Xanthopoulos

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Group Decis. Negot.

    Keywords

    Conflict resolution; Multi-criteria; Decision-making; Social planner; Caspian Sea; DECISION-MAKING; MANAGEMENT; Management; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

    Abstract

    This paper evaluates the proposed alternatives for sharing the Caspian Sea from the social planner's or systems-level perspective with respect to the stakeholders' utilities from the oil and natural gas resources of the sea. Different multi-criteria decision-making methods, namely dominance, maximin, lexicography, simple additive weighting, and TOPSIS are applied to determine the social planner's ranking of these alternatives. Results suggest the Condominium governance regime as the most promising division method. Bankruptcy rules and cooperative game theory methods can be considered as the other socially optimal resolutions to the conflict over sharing the Caspian Sea energy resources among its five littoral countries. Consideration of these methods in negotiations may help with resolving the existing deadlock, which has been in place for two decades.

    Journal Title

    Group Decision and Negotiation

    Volume

    23

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    579

    Last Page

    596

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000336980500012

    ISSN

    0926-2644

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