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...coalition, and not the other way round." In other words: "We'll call you when we need you." Nor are the Europeans assured when the U.S. turns its back on all kinds of international agreements like the landmine ban, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or the International Criminal Court (ICC). The smaller players frame the issue in terms of goodness; the real game, however, is power, and both sides know it. What is the logic? For the U.S., land mines come in handy when its intervention forces in the Balkans or the Middle East need protection against a counterattack. Ditto...
...tribunals exist and function for very different reasons than those underpinning the ICC. They are instruments of powerful nations for imposing a solution to a limited and particular problem. The Nuremburg trials and the Rwandan and Yugoslav war crimes tribunals are all attempts by strong nations to impose some sort of settlement on an unresolved, horrific injustice that moved the strong nations to outrage. It is the force and motivation sparked by this outrage that enables them to function in the absence of laws, procedures, and institutions for enforcing “international justice.” The ICC...
...without a genuine and realistic alternative to the ICC and the current special war crimes tribunals, we cannot allow the international legal system to fumble. For now, that means that Bagosora and Milosovic must not be given free reign in their trials. They destroyed their homelands; we cannot allow them to destroy the justice that the international legal system can bring...
Although the worlds of Rwanda and Yugoslavia seem to be vastly different, the machinations of both their leaders in the war crimes tribunals threaten the authority and future success of the international legal system and the ICC. For international jurisdiction even to have a chance, Bagosora and Milosovic must not be allowed to manipulate and circumvent the courts...
While it is difficult to grant international courts authority when there are no completely binding international contracts, having a system in place to try war criminals and to make other legal decisions makes it easier to enforce standards for all nations. Even with the ICC, these problems remain...