ABSTRACT
Henry Kissinger was initially trained as an intelligence officer and while at Harvard educated in Government and strategic studies. In his government career he often had limited use for international judicial procedures and as this article shows had considerable skepticism for both those who practiced it and the results. In less than a decade, an unprecedented movement has emerged to submit international politics to judicial procedures. The doctrine of universal jurisdiction asserts that some crimes are so heinous that their perpetrators should not escape justice by invoking doctrines of sovereign immunity or the sacrosanct nature of national frontiers. The ideological supporters of universal jurisdiction also provide much of the intellectual compass for the emerging International Criminal Court. Their goal is to criminalize certain types of military and political actions and thereby bring about a more humane conduct of international relations.
