Overview
- Provides legally convincing arguments in support of establishment and military enforcement of safe zones in refugee-generating States, particularly in Syria, to prevent large-scale refugee outflows
- Legal analysis that goes beyond a conservative legal evaluation of the issues at stake
- Shows how to avert large-scale refugee outflows and how to alleviate human suffering in today's world of internal warfare
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today’s world of civil and internal warfare.
Though large-scale refugee outflows have become an increasingly frequent problem in inter-state relations, international law offers no clear remedy. Accordingly, interpretation and adaptation of the existing rules and principles of international law, in addition to State practice and the jurisprudence of international courts, are required in order to find appropriate and lawful responses to such situations. The book examines countermeasures, necessity and humanitarian intervention as possible legal grounds to justify the establishment of safe zones.
Since the proposal of a safe zone for Syria remains on the international community’s agenda, the specific conditions of this case are particularly addressed in order to assess the suitability and legality of a possible safe zone in Syria.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Safe Zone
Book Subtitle: A Response to Large-Scale Refugee Outflows and Human Suffering
Authors: Lokman B. Çetinkaya
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51997-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51996-8Published: 10 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51997-5Published: 04 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-855X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 71
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Migration, Human Rights, International Relations