International Criminal Court: An Autonomous Agent of Human Security?

Abstract

This study aims to present a completion of alternative perspectives to security studies through the analysis of the international criminal court which is accepted as the culmination of human security.It was the state that was referred as the referent object in security studies.Now that the existence of the state has been the principal reason of instability and insecurity, there should be protection for the individuals, not the states.Beyond its conceptualization, the implementation of the human security has been most vivid with the establishment of a permanent internationalcriminal court that is based on human security, namely the International Criminal Court.However,in its first twelve years, the Court was severely criticized with its case selection and it was considerably undermined with the anti-ICC campaign of the USA.In general, this thesis argues that ICC could not be an effective and autonomous agent of human security although its statute was giving nearly no room for abuses.