Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes

Powell, Emilia Justyna

doi:10.1017/s0020818315000156

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“…Another option is the party's increased religiosity. Powell and Mitchell (2007) have noted that some principles of Islam, in particular, are at odds with the Westphalian tradition of international law (see also Powell 2015).…”

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A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

Cope

Crabtree

2018

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How do international laws affect citizens’ willingness to accept refugees? In full and partial democracies, citizens’ attitudes can influence national policy on accepting refugees. A growing literature suggests international institutions can influence citizens’ attitudes on foreign policy issues, but those studies are almost entirely confined to domestic human rights and U.S.-based respondents; none consider refugee policy. Using data from a survey experiment administered in September 2017 via face-to-face interviews with 1335 Turkish citizens, we investigate how international norms affect citizens’ willingness to accept refugees. Our findings are surprising: reminding people about the government’s responsibility under the Refugee Convention to accept refugees triggers a backfire effect, decreasing support for accepting them. This effect appears driven by respondents who support the nationalist-populist incumbent party and by lower-educated respondents. We therefore provide evidence that international refugee law – and perhaps international institutions generally – can trigger a political backlash, undermining the very policies that they promote.

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A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

Cope

Crabtree

2018

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“…In this type, the scholars emphasize on the evidence of the desire to make action against the official employees -an action that clearly happens. Second, the action of assaulting the official employees Powell (2015), where majority of scholars claimed that verbal threat is akin to forcing employees. Hence, penalty related to this type of threat is established.…”

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“…In several public job positions, the public employee needs to implement the law without interference from the community, as per judicial ruling (Powell, 2015). The employees can face threats stemming from the implementation of law and rules in the society.…”

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criminal protection of public employees in the united Arab emirates law compared with Islamic law

Mohamed

Rosman

2021

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The study aims to illustrate the criminal protection of public employees in the United Arab Emirates law compared with Islamic law in order to address the ambiguities related to the topic. Moreover, there is a large gap between the traditional United Arab Emirates Law and protection of public employees in Islamic law. This study highlights the importance of Islamic law as one of the essential sources of the law in United Arab Emirates. This study follows the doctrinal approach to identify and compare between the criminal protection provisions in both laws. The methodology allows understanding the criminal protection during the Prophet’s (PBUH) era and that of current companies. The result of this study shows that the Islamic law, established by the Almighty, is the main source of the traditional law in the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the criminal protection relays power of the importance of public employees to the United Arab Emirates institutions. The results of this study show that the criminal protection allows employees wide authority in their field exposing them to different challenges.

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“…While we now recognize the salient role of territory in the etiology of war, we know much less about the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes. One group of analysts who are working to fill this knowledge deficit emphasize the role of international law in managing territorial disputes (Allee and Huth 2006;Huth et al 2013;Powell 2015;Prorok and Huth 2015). They generally agree that international law plays a key role in encouraging dispute resolution by providing a focal point around which actors can coordinate territorial agreements and by offering "political cover" for domestic leaders facing expensive audience costs.…”

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International Rivalry, Territorial Disputes, and Peaceful Dispute Resolution

Thompson

Sakuwa

Suhas

2021

Analyzing Strategic Rivalries in World Politics

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Territorial disputes constitute an important root of interstate conflict. Yet these disputes do not always lead to war or even militarized conflict. Sometimes, one side yields to the other side by withdrawing its claims. Focusing on rival dyads whose territorial claims should be more intractable than is the case in non-rival dyads, we suggest that it is challengers, as opposed to the side that already controls the disputed territory in question, that are more likely to make concessions. Moreover, it is threats external to the spatial rivalry that encourage challengers to surrender their claims so that they may deal with more pressing threats. The empirical evidence supports these contentions. Territorial dispute challengers are more likely to engages in negotiations over the disputed space if they are also participants in other rivalries that, presumably, become associated with threats that are more worrisome than other, older spatial disagreements. One of several implications is that it is debatable whether we should assume that it is primarily boundary negotiations that end spatial disputes and therefore rivalries. On the contrary, the linkages between boundaries and rivalry are apt to be more complicated. Not only are all rivalries not spatial in nature, the way they end need not be due to the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes either.Findings that point to territorial disputes as among the most dangerous causes of international conflict and rivalry are well established in the interstate conflict literature. But not all territorial disputes escalate to war. Nor do all territorial disputes persist until they are resolved by coercive force. How decision-makers navigate their way out of territorial disputes is less well understood. Recourse to legal mechanisms and international law have received recent attention as key processes in efforts to reduce conflict over territory. What is left unclear is why or when decision-makers choose to make use of these legal mechanisms. Equally unclear is who makes use of opportunities to de-escalate territorial disputes. Presumably, states that are already in a rivalry relationship are less likely to walk away from a territorial dispute than states that are not rivals. There is too much psychological baggage and historical inertia to overcome in addition to dealing with the specifics of territorial control. Then, too, rivalries are often defined as manifestations of territorial disputes. Some are. Some are not. Yet, to what extent territorial disputes make rivalry more likely

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Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

criminal protection of public employees in the united Arab emirates law compared with Islamic law

International Rivalry, Territorial Disputes, and Peaceful Dispute Resolution

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