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Since its establishment at the turn of the century, a central preoccupation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been to catalyse the pursuit of criminal accountability at the domestic level. Drawing on ten years of research, this book theorizes the ICC's principle of complementarity as a transnational site and adaptive strategy for realizing an array of ambitious governance goals. Through a grounded, inter-disciplinary approach, it illustrates how complementarity came to be framed as a 'catalyst for compliance' and its unexpected effects on the legal frameworks and institutions of three different ICC 'situation countries' in Africa: Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Linking complementarity's law and practice to contemporary debates in international law and relations, the book unsettles international law's dominant progressive narrative. It urges a critical rethinking of the ICC's politics and a reorientation towards international criminal justice as a project of global legal pluralism.

The prevailing conception of John Kennedy's presidency has been that of a liberal administration unable to take a stronger stand on apartheid, not out of its own doubts about the desirability of black self-rule, but because of South Africa's Cold War geopolitical value. This paper, however, argues that Kennedy's presidency, while representing an important break with previous administrations over the sort of contact the United States should maintain with African nationalist movements, failed to engage with the African National Congress, seeing it instead as little more than a communist proxy. Through a careful examination of debates occurring within the Departments of State & Defense, as well as those in Pretoria, this article demonstrates that Kennedy's administration, while far from monolithic, ultimately chose to align itself with the Nationalist Party's depiction of apartheid as a policy 'in the interest of both sides'. 33 References. Adapted from the source document.

"This timely, perceptive book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the field of international criminal justice through focusing on a singular institution: the International Criminal Court (ICC). Drawing on a range of experience, empirical work, and normative theory, it seeks to come to grips with a remarkable development-the creation of a permanent, international court meant to adjudicate mass crimes-through assessing the ICC's work in practice, given now more than a decade of experience to explore"--