Book contents
- The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law
- The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Authors’ Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Historical Background
- 3 Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law
- 4 Use of Force in Self-Defense against Non-State Actors
- 5 Humanitarian Intervention in Response to Use of Chemical Weapons
- 6 Transformation of Accountability Paradigms
- 7 The Syrian Migration Crisis
- 8 International Law and the Syrian Peace Process
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix The Chautauqua Blueprint for a Statute for a Syrian Extraordinary Tribunal to Prosecute Atrocity Crimes
- Index
9 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2020
- The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law
- The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Authors’ Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Historical Background
- 3 Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law
- 4 Use of Force in Self-Defense against Non-State Actors
- 5 Humanitarian Intervention in Response to Use of Chemical Weapons
- 6 Transformation of Accountability Paradigms
- 7 The Syrian Migration Crisis
- 8 International Law and the Syrian Peace Process
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix The Chautauqua Blueprint for a Statute for a Syrian Extraordinary Tribunal to Prosecute Atrocity Crimes
- Index
Summary
Historically, crystallization of new rules of customary international law was viewed as a protracted process that took decades, if not centuries, to complete. But, sometimes, during periods of sweeping geopolitical change, customary international law can ripen quite rapidly. Often those periods correspond with major wars. Named in honor of Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De Jure Belli ac Pacis helped usher in the modern system of international law at the end of the Eighty Years’ War, “Grotian moments” are transformative developments that generate the unique conditions for accelerated formation of customary international law. Has this book proved that the Syrian conflict was a Grotian moment? And, if so, what will the legacy of Syria be?
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- The Syrian Conflict's Impact on International Law , pp. 173 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020