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India's relation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reasonably well covered in a wide ranging set of literature. The obverse is less so, hence the purpose of this paper is to cover, at least in a fundamental manner, the UAE's foreign policy toward India. The policy focuses on two elements: labor migration from India to work in the UAE's burgeoning petroleum industry and to provide the necessary skill set to the country's developing industrial economy, and the Indian gold market and its export to the UAE, which can be observed in the many gold suqs found throughout the UAE. This is a contributory study on comparative foreign policy and the UAE's foreign policy toward India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Syrian civil conflict has caused approximately 2.7 million Syrians to leave their country since 2011, and double that many are expected to have fled Syria by the end of 2015. The Syrian displacement of what will be the refugee aspect of the crisis that has received very little attention: that is, the implications of international law at the international, regional and domestic level affecting the rights and status of the refugees flooding out o f Syria. As it is described in this paper, countries currently hosting the vast majority of the refugee flow out of Syria are stretched to the limits of their resources. Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Turkey have huge refugee population pre-dating the Syrian Influx. Many, if not most, of these preexisting refugee groups live in desperate conditions, and host countries cannot meet all the refugees ’ assistance and protection needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]