... divided the United States from the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute of the Court, in partic-ular the role of the Security Council, the powers of the prosecutor, the questions ... one of our central purposes is to elucidate these twofaces of the politics of international law, to better understand the nature of international politics, how it conditions international law, ... Law against Augusto Pinochet, the creation of the new International Crim-inal Court, the debate over nuclear missile defence, the conduct of the ‘war against terrorism’, or the standoff in the...