Toward the Reformulation of International Refugee Law

the foreign policy of russia toward caucasus 2000-2008

after the soviet union dissolution, a chaotic period was begun in the russia. russia lost its glory and felt disgrace. the first group of elites came to power under yeltsin; they tried to re-define russia’s identity as a european country and build a foreign policy on this baseline. therefore russia tried to become closer with the west especially with the u.s. according to their view the sovie...

The Theoretical Foundations of Jus Cogens in International Law

International Law has it's Constituent elements (legal systems, regimes and collections of rules); Those have  interrelations from which legal networks are created. Having this in mind,  the question is whether these Constituent elements only have horizental nexus or are ordered by means of factors which unified them in a vertical manner and because of that International Law is named legal orde...

The International Politics of Refugee Protection

This article shows that the refugee burdens among Western states are also very unequally distributed and that this constitutes a problem not only for individual states, but also for the EU as whole. It argues that despite many obstacles, the development of regional or international burdensharing regimes is indeed desirable. Attempts to explain or justify steps towards such a system do not have ...

Who Should Watch Over Refugee Law?

Examples of Patients' Rights in the Light of the Normative Hierarchy of International Law

Background and Aim: The Right to Health as an Example of Human Rights Entered the International Law Literature as a General Principle After the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This Principle has Developed Over the Years in Terms of Instances, and From Within it Have Emerged Instances That are Closely Related to the ...