The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present
in Jordan and Israel if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water
security could be derived. The analysis is based on the assumption that from human security
perspective common solutions for urgent problems can be derived more easily than out of a
perspective of national security. Yet it is acknowledged that according to a new security
perspective different security threats are being identified by relevant actors. An empirical
analysis of written statements and utterances of the respective security elites establishes the
methodological tool for the identification of human security discourses in Israel and Jordan.
Subsequently it is estimated how far water is presented as a matter of national security in
Israel and Jordan using the theory of securitization.
