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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a new international court that was created in 2002. The ICC is the first and only standing international court that is capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The ICC faces huge obstacles, such as no police force, pursuing investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death, and being charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims. The ICC also seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates have sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy. In this book, Oberlin College Professor of Politics Ben Schiff analyzes the ICC, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges.
The ICC is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary, single-purpose criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and special courts have come and gone, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy. In Building the International Criminal Court, Oberlin College Professor of Politics Ben Schiff analyzes the ICC, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges.
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