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America’s exceptionalist tradition: from the law of nations to the international criminal court
Citation
Killingsworth, M, America's exceptionalist tradition: from the law of nations to the international criminal court, Global Society, 33, (2) pp. 285-304. ISSN 1360-0826 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2019 University of Kent. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Global Society on 20/02/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13600826.2019.1580678
DOI: doi:10.1080/13600826.2019.1580678
Abstract
How might we explain the reticence that the United States has towards the International Criminal Court, especially when one considers that the Rome Statute, the Court’s governing treaty, contains many of the legal protections afforded under the US legal system? This article will argue that the US’ relationship with the ICC is part of a longer pattern of US behaviour that can be best explained through the lens of exceptionalism. In making this argument, the article has two interrelated objectives: first, to provide an historical overview of how the US has behaved vis-à-vis treaty-based international legal institutions designed to moderate warfare; and second, to provide a critique of arguments that present the United States’ relationship with said legal institutions as nothing more than an expression of narrowly informed national interests.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | crime, USA, international criminology court |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Political science |
| Research Field: | International relations |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | International relations |
| Objective Field: | International relations not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Killingsworth, M (Dr Matt Killingsworth) |
| ID Code: | 130857 |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2019-02-18 |
| Last Modified: | 2020-09-10 |
| Downloads: | 26 View Download Statistics |
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