Reluctant Engagement: U.S. Policy and the International Criminal Court

Mark D. Kielsgard, JD, LL.M, J.S.D. Rutgers University and St. Thomas University Law Schools, is a former trial attorney, and an Adjunct Professor of Law who has lectured and published on human rights, international criminal law, terrorism, international economic policy and genocide.

It appeals to scholars and students of international law, international politics/studies, human rights and domestic U.S. politics and to relevant libraries, institutes and laypersons interested in U.S. policy.

Preface;
Acknowledgements;
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Legal Response to Atrocity; Delimitation of the Problem; Identification of Conflicting Claims;
CHAPTER 2 Articulating a Robust Jurisprudence: Trends in the Development of the Modern International Rights Regime; International Human Rights Law; Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; A Unified Rights Regime – The Cold War and Beyond; The Modern Retreat from State Sovereignty;
CHAPTER 3 The ICC: “The Last Great International Institution of the Twentieth Century”; ICC Format and Scope; Jurisdiction; Enforcement; The ICC’s Progress So Far; U. S. Negotiating History;
CHAPTER 4 The United States’ Response to the Rome Statute; U.S. Threat to Veto Peacekeeping;
ASPA/Nethercutt Amendment; Bilateral Immunity Agreements; U. S. Assault on the ICC Relents;
The Bush Administration’s Apparent Motives;
CHAPTER 5 Countervailing U.S. Ideology toward the ICC: American Exceptionalism, Neoconservativism and Protecting America’s Interests Abroad; The Historic Tradition of American Foreign Policy; Modern American Exceptionalism;
CHAPTER 6 Shifting Macroeconomic Paradigms; Reformation of Corporate Practices; The Extraction Industry; Shifting From the Carbon-Based Model; Economic Instability: Driving the Paradigm Shift;
Models for the “New Economics”;
CHAPTER 7 Appraising the Vitality of U.S. Opposition to the ICC; The Flaws of an International Politico-Legal Justice System; Post Neoconservatism and Obama’s Politics of “Change”; Recommendations;
CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: Promoting an International Order of Human Dignity with Teeth;
Bibliography; Index.