This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument. It argues that after the Cold War the European Union starte

Annotation The world's first permanent international criminal tribunal for the prosecution and punishment of the world's most serious crimes was created in 2002

The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first chall

Grappling specifically with the norm of sovereignty as responsibility, the book seeks to advance a critical constructivist understanding of norm development in

This book theorizes how weaker states in the international system use the ICC to advance their security and political interests.