The Twilight of the ICC¶
TEL AVIV—International criminal tribunals once focused on bringing defeated leaders, such as Serbia’s Slobodan Milošević and Liberia’s Charles Taylor, to justice. But the International Criminal Court has gone further, issuing arrest warrants for incumbent leaders—notably, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While there is a certain boldness in such actions, they fail to account for political reality. In fact, the ICC’s new, more forceful posture may well have incited its downfall.