Power and Interests at the International Criminal Court

In: SAIS Review, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 107-119

Abstract

U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court is disconnected from the central politics of the Court & focused on a mostly irrelevant sideshow. The Court's fundamental political problem is its need for money & security forces to arrest suspects & try them. This feature makes the Court more subject to the control of powerful states than most have realized. Even if the United States cooperated with the Court, however, arrests & prisoners would likely be few & far between. Instead, the United States should work with the Court to refocus its efforts on capacity building in weakly democratic states. Adapted from the source document.