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The United States and the international criminal court : national security and international law / edited by Sarah B. Sewall and Carl Kaysen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sewall, Sarah B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International Criminal Court.
- Criminal jurisdiction--United States.
- Criminal jurisdiction.
- International criminal courts.
- International crimes.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2000.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A growing international consensus supports the idea of holding individuals responsible for the most egregious violations of human rights such as genocide. This consensus lies behind the recent efforts to create an International Criminal Court (ICC). The United States, however, has refused to support the ICC, citing concerns that the Court may pose a threat to national security. This volume brings legal, historical, military, and political perspectives to an examination of U.S. concerns about the ICC. The contributors assess not only the potential national security risks that would be associate
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1: The United States and the International Criminal Court: An Overview; Part I: The Roots of the ICC; 2: The Evolution of the ICC: From The Hague to Rome and Back Again; 3: Lessons from the International Criminal Tribunals; 4: The Statute of the ICC: Past, Present, and Future; 5: Exceptional Cases in Rome: The United States and the Struggle for an ICC; Part II: The United States and the ICC; 6: The U.S. Perspective on the ICC; 7: The Constitution and the ICC
- 8: American Servicemembers and the ICC9: The ICC and the Deployment of U.S. Armed Forces; 10: The United States and Genocide Law: A History of Ambivalence; Part III: The ICC and National Approaches to Justice; 11: Justice versus Peace; 12: Complementarity and Conflict: States, Victims, and the ICC; Part IV: The ICC's Implications for International Law; 13: The ICC's Jurisdiction over the Nationals of Non-Party States; 14: The ICC and the Future of the Global Legal System; Appendix: Bringing a Case to the ICC: Pathways and Thresholds; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41278-6
- 979-82-16-24730-2
- 0-7425-0134-5
- 1-4616-4596-4
- OCLC:
- 862049743
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