Response to Koh and Buchwald's Article: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Tilt at Windmills

In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 109, Heft 3, S. 557-569

Abstract

In their eagerness to justify the "United States perspective" on the Kampala definition of the crime of aggression and on the International Criminal Court (ICC), Koh and Buchwald tend to invent imaginary enemies and to ascribe to them views that they do not actually hold. In so doing, the authors weaken a thesis that, in some respects, is not devoid of interest. From at least two points of view, however, their article is paradoxical, if not pathetic—exactly like the U.S. position.