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This article examines recent historical developments, in particular the establishment of the International Criminal Court, in light of Morgenthau’s The Twilight of International Morality. It suggests three scenarios for understanding the current trajectory of international morality: the false dawn, a superstructure of morality that serves as an apology for the exercise of raw power by liberal democracies; a reverie, a utopia dreamed up by idealists; and the dawn of international justice. The article contends that the third scenario, under which the ICC represents the dawn of international justice and demonstrates that a cosmopolitan international morality can exist, is the most credible despite the persistence of islands of outlawry.
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Hans Morgenthau , “The Twilight of International Morality ,” Ethics 58, no. 2 (1948): 88.
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Ibid., 93.
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Ibid., 99.
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Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” The National Interest 16 (1989).
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Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , 2187 U.N.T.S. 90, July 17, 1998.
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The establishment and role of the ICC are discussed in Luis Moreno-Ocampo , Chapter 16 (above).
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Arguments raised by states such as Sudan characterizing the ICC as a tool of the great powers are addressed in Catherine Lu, Chapter 18, Sections 18.1 and 18.2 (below).
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Martti Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
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Niccolo Machiavelli , The Prince (New York : The Modern Library, 1950).
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1881).
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (New York : Penguin Classics, 1848).
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The implications of China ’s interests in the Sudan on the situation in Darfur are discussed in Yehuda Bauer, Chapter 7, Sections 7.1 and 7.3 (above) and Richard J. Goldstone, Chapter 11, Section 11.4 (above).
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See The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court , “The States Parties to the Rome Statute ,” http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ICC-ASP-7-SWGCA-INF.1%20English.pdf (Accessed November 29, 2007).
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US Department of State, “Article 98 Agreements and the International Criminal Court ,” http://www.state.gov/t/pm/art98/ (last Accessed: November 29, 2007); Human Rights Watch , “Letter to State Parties and Signatories to ICC on Article 98 Agreements,” New York , August 9, 2002, http://hrw.org/press/2002/08/article98letter.htm (last accessed November 29, 2007).
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An account of the deteriorating situation in Darfur is provided in Gérard Prunier, Chapter 3, Sections 3.1 and 3.2 (above).
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The impact of the ICC on the situation in Uganda is addressed in Catherine Lu, Chapter 18, Section 18.1 (below) and Luis Moreno-Ocampo , Chapter 16 (above).
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Max Weber , Sociological Writings (New York : The German Library, 1949), 81.
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Weisbord, N. (2011). International Justice: From the Twilight to the Dawn? International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at McGill University. In: Provost, R., Akhavan, P. (eds) Confronting Genocide. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9840-5_17
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