CFR, Brookings Celebrate Obama “Lovefest” for International Criminal Court
On April 16, 2013, Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, published a rhapsodic paean to the Obama administration’s “honeymoon” and “lovefest” with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution hosted what would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a fulsome discussion, at times an outright lovefest, between officials from the U.S. government and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, lauded Washington for bolstering the court’s efforts to bring war criminals to justice.”
Thus begins the article, “America's Honeymoon With the ICC: Will Washington's Love for International Law Last?” penned by Professor David Kaye of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law....