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Asylia

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

By: Kent J. Rigsby

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Asylia

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

By: Kent J. Rigsby

In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon—mainly inscriptions and coins—is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications in a substantial introduction. He argues that while a hopeful intention of military neutrality lay behind the institution of asylum, the declarations did not in fact change military behavior. Instead, "declared inviolability" became a civic and religious honor for which cities across the Greek world competed during the third to first centuries B.C.

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0520916379

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Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees

An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices

By: Avidan Kent,Simon Behrman

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Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees

An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices

By: Avidan Kent,Simon Behrman

One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration. Yet, to date, climate-induced migrants are falling within what has been defined by some as a ‘protection gap’. This book addresses this issue, first by identifying precisely where the gap exists, by reviewing the relevant legal tools that are available for those who are currently, and who will in the future be displaced because of climate change. The authors then address the relevant actors; the identity of those deserving protection (displaced individuals), as well as other bearers of rights (migration-hosting states) and obligations (polluting states). The authors also address head-on the contentious topic of definitions, concluding with the provocative assertion that the term ‘climate refugees’ is indeed correct and should be relied upon. The second part of the book looks to the future by advocating specific legal and institutional pathways. Notably, the authors support the use of international environmental law as the most adequate and suitable regime for the regulation of climate refugees. With respect to the role of institutions, the authors propose a model of ‘cross-governance’, through which a more inclusive and multi-faceted protection regime could be achieved. Addressing the regulation of climate refugees through a unique collaboration between a refugee lawyer and an environmental lawyer, this book will be of great interest to scholars and professionals in fields including international law, environmental studies, refugee studies and international relations.

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Routledge

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1351175688

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Asylia

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

By: Kent J. Rigsby

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Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

By: Kent J. Rigsby

A work of monumental erudition and completeness, clearly superior in its collection of materials. . . . The novelty of the work lies in [Rigsby's] interpretative framework, which forces us to reexamine some thorny questions."--Christopher Jones, Harvard University "Although the author covers enormous ground both chronologically and topographically, the quality of the scholarship remains everywhere at the same high level."--Christian Habicht, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

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0520200985

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