If Ukraine Wants the ICC’s Help, It Must Play by the ICC's Rules

If Ukraine Wants the ICC’s Help, It Must Play by the ICC's Rules

Kiev can’t have its cake and eat it too.

Valentyna Polunina is a doctoral candidate at the University of Heidelberg and Research Fellow at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. Andreas Umland is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kiev, and General Editor of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” published by ibidem Press in Stuttgart, and distributed outside of Europe by Columbia University Press.

Image: A Euromaidan protester in Kiev. Flickr/Ivan Bandura