The International Criminal Court and the Crime of Aggression Book

	List of participants
	Editors' preface
	The crime of aggression from Nuremberg to the Rome statute
1	The historical background	3
2	Origins of the criminalization of aggression : how crimes against peace became the "supreme international crime"	17
3	Will aggressors ever be tried before the ICC?	33
4	The debate within the preparatory commission for the international criminal court	43
	The international criminal court and the crime of aggression : questions of definition and jurisdiction
5	The definition of the crime of aggression and the ICC jurisdiction over that crime	55
6	Aggression and the ICC : views on certain ideas and their potential for a solution	79
7	Defining the crime of aggression or redefining aggression?	87
8	Definition of the crime of aggression : state responsibility or individual criminal responsibility?	93
9	The crime of aggression : definitional options for the way forward	97
10	The exercise of the international criminal court's jurisdiction over the crime of aggression : short term and long term prospects	109
	The crime of aggression and the relationship between the international criminal court and the security council
11	The respective roles of the ICC and the security council in determining the existence of an aggression	121
12	Reflections on the role of the security council in determining an act of aggression	125
13	The ICC and the security council on aggression : overlapping competencies?	133
14	The ICC and the security council : about the argument of politicization	145
15	Conclusions generales	151
	Afterword : the international criminal court and the crime of aggression : from the preparatory commission to the assembly of states parties and beyond
16	An outsider's view	165
17	An insider's view	175
	Index	189