By: Guglielmo Triscari This piece argues that as the United States, once a primary architect of international norms, increasingly adopts an antagonistic stance toward the International Criminal Court (ICC), the durability of the 21st-century definition of justice reaches a critical existential reckoning. This approach risks establishing a “new normal” where the global legal order faces a historic confrontation between legal universalism and geopolitical dominance. Amidst this friction, the European Union has emerged as the Court’s primary defender, attempting to bridge the gap between legal ideals and geopolitical reality. By analyzing the EU’s deployment of the Blocking Statute to shield the […]
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