Global Justice vs. U.S. Global Hegemony: Rejecting Bolton’s Opposition to the ICC

Authors

• Norman Swazo, North South University, Dhaka Bangladesh

Abstract

Former U.S. National Security Advisor John R. Bolton has announced that as an official Trump Administration national security policy, the USA will not support the International Criminal Court (ICC) and instead will work for its demise. At issue here is a concept of global justice versus insistence on US global hegemony and a Pax Americana. Here, the author argues against Bolton's position rejecting the legitimacy of international law and the ICC. Bolton 's appeal to a principle of consent must yield to a principle of salience, as defended by Ronald Dworkin; a concept ofjustice, as advocated by Amartya Sen; and a concept of legitimacy, as defended by Allen Buchanan and Robert Keohane.

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | Courts | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | International Law | International Trade Law | Law | Law and Politics

Recommended Citation

Norman Swazo, Global Justice vs. U.S. Global Hegemony: Rejecting Bolton’s Opposition to the ICC, 3 Cardozo Int’l & Compar. L. Rev. 123 (2019).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/ciclr/vol3/iss1/5