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The International Criminal Court

Jul 1998 · icc

The innovation is that *individuals* are held responsible rather than states, and that holding office confers no immunity. The court steps in only where national systems will not or cannot. Several great powers, the United States, China and Russia among them, have not joined, and that is the standing objection to its reach.

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