Criminal Procedure, Foreign & International Law, International & World Politics, National & International Security, Criminal Law, International Relations 

American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide. The Court is a logical culmination of the global trends toward expanding human rights and creating international institutions. The U.S., which fostered these trends because they served American national interests, initially championed the creation of an ICC. The Court fundamentally represents the triumph of American values in the international arena.Yet the United States now opposes the ICC for fear of constraints upon America's ability to use force to protect its national interests. The principal national security and constitutional objections to the Court, which the volume explores in detail, inflate the potential risks inherent in joining the ICC. More fundamentally, they reflect a belief in American exceptionalism that is unsustainable in today's world. Court opponents also underestimate the growing salience of international norms and institutions in addressing emerging threats to U.S. national interests. The misguided assessments that buttress opposition to the ICC threaten to undermine American leadership and security in the 21st century more gravely than could any international institution. - from Amzon 

Table of Contents
1. The United States and the International Criminal Court: An Overview by Sarah B. Sewall and Carl Kaysen and Michael P. Scharf .......................................p. 1
Part I The Roots of the ICC
2. The Evolution of the ICC: From The Hague to Rome and Back Again by Leila Nadya Sadat ..........................................................................................p. 31
3. Lessons from the International Criminal Tribunals by Richard J. Goldstone and Gary Jonathan Bass .................................................................................p. 51
4. The Statute of the ICC: Past, Present, and Future by Bartram S. Brown .p. 61
5. Exceptional Cases in Rome: The United States and the Struggle for an ICC by Lawrence Weschler ..................................................................................p. 85
Part II The United States and the ICC
6. The U.S. Perspective on the ICC by David J. Scheffer ...................p. 115
7. The Constitution and the ICC by Ruth Wedgwood .........................p. 119
8. American Servicemembers and the ICC by Robinson O. Everett .......p. 137
9. The ICC and the Deployment of U.S. Armed Forces William L. Nash p. 153
10. The United States and Genocide Law: A History of Ambivalence Samantha Power p. 165
Part III The ICC and National Approaches to Justice
11. Justice versus Peace by Michael P. Scharf.........................................p. 179
12. Complementarity and Conflict: States, Victims, and the ICC by Madeline Morris ...........................................................................................................p. 195
Part IV The ICC's Implications for International Law
13. The ICC's Jurisdiction over the Nationals of Non-Party States by Michael P. Scharf .................................................................................................p. 213
14. The ICC and the Future of the Global Legal System by Abram Chayes and Anne-Marie Slaughter......................................................................................p. 237
Appendix Bringing a Case to the ICC: Pathways and Thresholds by Bartram S. Brown...................................................................................................p. 249