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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Participants -- Editors' Preface -- The Crime of Aggression from Nuremberg to the Rome Statute -- 1. The Historical Background -- 2. Origins of the Criminalization of Aggression: How Crimes Against Peace Became the "Supreme International Crime"--3. Will Aggressors Ever be Tried Before the ICC? -- 4. The Debate within the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court -- 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 -- 6. Aggression and the ICC: Views on Certain Ideas and their Potential for a Solution -- 7. Defining the Crime of Aggression or Redefining Aggression? -- 8. Definition of the Crime of Aggression: State Responsibility or Individual Criminal Responsibility? -- 9. The Crime of Aggression: Definitional Options for the Way Forward -- 10. The Exercise of the International Criminal Court's Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression: Short Term and Long Term Prospects -- 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 -- 12. Reflections on the Role of the Security Council in Determining an Act of Aggression -- 13. The ICC and the Security Council on Aggression: Overlapping Competencies? -- 14. The ICC and the Security Council: About the Argument of Politicization -- 15. Conclusions Générales -- 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 -- 17. An Insider's View -- Index