How Democracies Let the World Become a Lawless Order

People and Our Security Are Paying a High Price

The third Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is held in The Hague, the Netherlands in the Fall 2004. Author: Coalition for the ICC/Wim Van Cappellen

Before us lies an abyss: a lawless order in a leaderless world.

This is the world of the struggle of each against all that Hobbes described in Leviathan, using …