A new frontier for the defense of human dignity : from the ad hoc tribunals to an international criminal court : competence and jurisdiction of an ICC [Antonio Fiumefreddo]

Abstract

The history of man often records the "interference" of a stronger group with a weaker one, of a people with another, of a coalition of nations against other nations. This has always been a violent kind of interference, often brought about by wars, and the ref ore it has not been possible to give it some kind of codification. Even contemporary history, as well as recent events, has experienced and recognized the right to interference in a region as a prerogative of leader States in order to re-establish a situation after the violation of the world economic and political order. The events which happened as late as the Gulf War have actually witnessed the application of the right to military intervention, and therefore also political intervention, which was decided upon in order to solve an evidently dangerous situation for the balance of world power politics. [excerpt]