Deeply hindered by the lack of
enforcement mechanisms, international law can too easily be evaded or violated
outright by government officials of countries who easily sense the ability to
act so with impunity. Was the president of Mongolia such an official, and thus to
be considered as blameworthy, when he did not have Russia’s President Putin
arrested as soon as he touched down on Mongolian soil and sent to the
International Criminal Court in 2024 for war crimes committed in Ukraine,
including forcibly taking Ukrainian children to Russia? Is Mongolia’s acquiescence
just another case of the implacable impotence of international law?
The full essay is at "On the Reach of the International Criminal Court."