International criminal court: A necessary step towards global justice

Security Dialogue

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 405-419

  Popovski, Vesselin ^a  

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EID: 0041111992     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010600031004003     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. James Gow, 'A Revolution in International Affairs?', Security Dialogue, vol. 31, no. 3, September 2000, pp. 293-306.
2. The text of the statute can be seen and downloaded from the CICC International Criminal Court Home Page, at: http://www.iccnow.org/htrnl/icc19990712.html. This NGO website (http://www.iccnow.org) allows free e-mail subscription to all news and publications on the ICC.
3. Ruth Wedgwood, 'The International Criminal Court: An American View', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 93-107; and 'Fiddling in Rome', Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 6, November-December 1998, pp. 20-24; John Bolton, 'The Global Prosecutors: Hunting War Criminals in the Name of Utopia', Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 1, January-February 1999, pp. 157-164; and 'Why an International Criminal Court Won't Work', Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1998. More constructive criticism was made by Jonathan Charney, 'Progress in International Criminal Law?', American Journal of International Law, vol. 93, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 452-464.
4. Ruth Wedgwood, 'The International Criminal Court: An American View', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 93-107; and 'Fiddling in Rome', Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 6, November-December 1998, pp. 20-24; John Bolton, 'The Global Prosecutors: Hunting War Criminals in the Name of Utopia', Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 1, January-February 1999, pp. 157-164; and 'Why an International Criminal Court Won't Work', Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1998. More constructive criticism was made by Jonathan Charney, 'Progress in International Criminal Law?', American Journal of International Law, vol. 93, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 452-464.
5. Ruth Wedgwood, 'The International Criminal Court: An American View', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 93-107; and 'Fiddling in Rome', Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 6, November-December 1998, pp. 20-24; John Bolton, 'The Global Prosecutors: Hunting War Criminals in the Name of Utopia', Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 1, January-February 1999, pp. 157-164; and 'Why an International Criminal Court Won't Work', Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1998. More constructive criticism was made by Jonathan Charney, 'Progress in International Criminal Law?', American Journal of International Law, vol. 93, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 452-464.
6. Ruth Wedgwood, 'The International Criminal Court: An American View', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 93-107; and 'Fiddling in Rome', Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 6, November-December 1998, pp. 20-24; John Bolton, 'The Global Prosecutors: Hunting War Criminals in the Name of Utopia', Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 1, January-February 1999, pp. 157-164; and 'Why an International Criminal Court Won't Work', Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1998. More constructive criticism was made by Jonathan Charney, 'Progress in International Criminal Law?', American Journal of International Law, vol. 93, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 452-464.
7. Ruth Wedgwood, 'The International Criminal Court: An American View', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 93-107; and 'Fiddling in Rome', Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 6, November-December 1998, pp. 20-24; John Bolton, 'The Global Prosecutors: Hunting War Criminals in the Name of Utopia', Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 1, January-February 1999, pp. 157-164; and 'Why an International Criminal Court Won't Work', Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1998. More constructive criticism was made by Jonathan Charney, 'Progress in International Criminal Law?', American Journal of International Law, vol. 93, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 452-464.
8. All of the judges at Nuremberg were from the victorious states; there was ex post facto legislation; and no right of appeal was provided. The Tokyo Tribunal did not charge Emperor Hirohito. See details in Herbert Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), reviewed in The Economist, 2-8 September 2000, pp. 85-86.
9. See Timothy Mak, 'The Case Against an International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia', International Peacekeeping, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1995, pp. 536-569; Aleksandar Fatic, 'The Need for a Politically Balanced Works of the Hague International War Crimes Tribunal', Review of International Affairs, vol. XLVII, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 8-11.
10. See Timothy Mak, 'The Case Against an International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia', International Peacekeeping, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1995, pp. 536-569; Aleksandar Fatic, 'The Need for a Politically Balanced Works of the Hague International War Crimes Tribunal', Review of International Affairs, vol. XLVII, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 8-11.
11. Manuel Garreton, 'Chile 1997-98: The Revenge of Incomplete Democratization', International Affairs, vol. 75, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 253-267, on p. 263.
12. Editorial in Sunday Telegraph, 18 July 1999, p. 32.
13. I borrow this language from Aurelien Colson, 'The Logic of Peace and the Logic of Justice', International Relations, vol. XV, no. 1, April 2000, pp. 51-63.
14. See note 2, above.
15. Both Carla del Ponte and Milan Panic are quoted from the CICC International Criminal Court Home Page (note 2 above).
16. On the latter, see David J. Francis, Torturous Path to Peace: The Lomé Accord and Postwar Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone', Security Dialogue, vol. 31, no. 3, September 2000, pp. 357-373.
17. Wedgwood (note 3 above), p. 95.
18. See Mahnoush Arsanjani, The ICC and National Amnesties', 93 ASIL Proc. 214 (2000) (American Society of International Law Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting 24-27 March 1999), pp. 65-68.
19. 'The Trouble with Amnesties', The Economist, 19-25 August 2000, p. 16.
20. Wedgwood (note 3 above), p. 95.
21. Report of the International Law Commission (ILC), 46th Session (2 May-22 July 1994), UN Doc. A/49/10, p. 85.
22. More details are provided in Vesselin Popovski, 'UN Security Council: Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention and the Veto', Security Dialogue, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 249-251.
23. Sally Morphet explored this tendency in her analysis of Chinese voting in the Security Council in 'China as a Permanent Member of the Security Council', Security Dialogue, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 151-166.
24. Wedgwood (note 3 above), p. 98.
25. Antonio Cassese, 'Statute of the International Criminal Court: Some Preliminary Reflections', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 144-171, on p. 162.
26. See, for example, C. K. Hall, 'The Third and Fourth Sessions of the UN Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of the ICC', American Journal of International Law, vol. 92, no. 1, January 1998, pp. 124-133.
27. Cassese (note 20 above), pp. 147-148.
28. For the flaws in the definition of other crimes, see Cassese (note 20 above), pp. 150-153.
29. Cassese (note 20 above), p. 164.
30. Marten Zwanenburg, 'The Statute for an International Criminal Court and the United States: Peacekeepers under Fire?', European Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999, pp. 124-143.
31. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 'The International Criminal Court: The Case for US Support', available at http://www.lchr.org/feature/50th/uspos.htm.
32. David Scheffer, the Head of the US Delegation at the Rome Conference and at the subsequent PrepComs, indicated possible cooperation if ICC jurisdiction will be not binding upon non-members. D. Scheffer, 'The ICC: The Challenge of Jurisdiction', 93 ASIL Proc. 214 (2000) (American Society of International Law Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting, 24-27 March 1999), pp. 68-72. See also Scheffer's latest statements at the CICC International Criminal Court Home Page (note 2 above).