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"This book offers a historical presentation of how international criminal law has evolved from a national setting to embodying a truly international outlook. As a growing part of international law this is an area that has attracted growing attention as a result of the mass atrocities and heinous crimes committed in different parts of the world. Çakmak pays particular attention to how the first permanent international criminal court was created and goes on to show how solutions developed to address international crimes have remained inadequate and failed to restore justice"--Back cover

Based on extensive field work involving the leading figures of the diverse Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella initiative of opposition groups fighting against the Assad regime, this study critically evaluates the challenges ahead as well as the inherent opportunities for the post-conflict era in Syria

AbstractThis paper compares and contrasts the Islamic law of armed conflict with the modern international humanitarian law, with the view of identifying foundational similarities between these two separate canons, drawing extensively from al-Siyar al-Kabir. To this end, it raises the question as to whether the Islamic law of armed conflict is compatible with its modern counterpart, and, if it is, to what extent. To address these interlinked questions, the study departs from the premise that in order to identify resemblance, it is necessary to enquire into the foundations (both legal and philosophical) of the Islamic and contemporary approaches vis-à-vis armed conflicts.

Introduction / Ali Onur Özçelik and Cenap Çakmak -- Expectations, benchmarks, and tensions : exploring Turkey's political U-turn from Brussels / Anthony Costello -- The rule of law as "arrested development" : the Turkish experiments with the political condition / Mustafa Yaylalı -- The collapse of Turkey's three-pillar engagement policy as a part of reversed third wave / Devrim Şahin and Ahmet Sözen -- A search for effective governance at the cost of Turkey's EU democratization process / Devrim Şahin and Ahmet Sözen -- Turkey on the frontline between the West and the Middle East : a buffer state or more? / Devrim Şahin and Ahmet Sözen -- EU accession process and women's rights in Turkey : the effects on family values and culture / Cenap Çakmak and Ali Onur Özçelik -- The EU's civil society conditionality in Turkey : applying a gramscian lens to procedural diffusion / Sinem Bal -- EU conditionality in the Europeanization of Turkey's environmental policy / Neriman Hocaoğlu Bahadir -- A negating condition(ality)--the EU migration externalization and Turkey / Seven Erdogan and Hüsrev Tabak -- OECDization, Europeanization, and particularism in Turkey's development assistance / Veysel Tekdal and Ali Onur Özçelik -- Conclusion / Cenap Çakmak and Ali Onur Özçelik.

This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social development of the Arab Spring. Contributors analyze the response by international organizations (UN, EU, NATO), big powers (US, Russia, China, UK), regional powers (Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and small powers (Kuwait, Qatar). The book thus makes a sound contribution to the existing literature on the Arab Spring in form of foreign policy analysis and provides an overview of the current shape and outlook of global politics. -- Publisher description.