Foreword
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2018

This is a good time for serious discussion about the international law crime of aggression, and this is a good book to begin it. After a deceptively false start at Nuremberg, and a tentative definition in 1974 endorsed by a General Assembly Resolution, it appeared elliptically in Article 5 of the Rome Statue a quartercentury later as a crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but a jurisdiction which would be suspended until an up-to-date definition could be agreed. Agr