Author: William Oeseburg
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is responsible for investigating and charging where able people or governments that commit the most grievous of crimes, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. While this court has legal authority over states that recognize its jurisdiction, it doesn't have a concrete in-house enforcement force. The ICC relies on its member states to enforce their arrest warrants. Historically this has not been a massive issue as the target of many of the ICC’s investigations and subsequent arrest warrants were high-ranking government offcials of failed states which had little global influence and were unable to escape prosecution. However, in the historical case of the ICC’s arrest warrant for Vladamir Putin, we run into problems.
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