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Worlds Apart on International Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2004

Jeremy Rabkin
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Abstract

Differing strategic priorities are only the beginning of the dispute over the International Criminal Court. Americans will not abandon their traditional constitution, as submission to the ICC would require. European states have already subordinated their national constitutions to a German-dominated federation. Americans do not accept international monitors in fighting against evil. Europeans are drawn to relativizing abstractions. For Germans, the ICC promises to “overcome the past,” by licensing German judges to try Americans and Israelis for war crimes. Europeans may feel obliged to fall in step with this latest German project. The US still has the moral self-confidence to resist it.

Keywords

International Criminal Courttransatlantic relations
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 835 - 857
Copyright
© 2002 Kluwer Law International

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