On July 13, the Trump administration announced in an op-ed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it would “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC), “brick by brick, if necessary,” using “all the tools at our government’s disposal.” According to a State Department press release, the United States will undertake

a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty. The campaign will feature a whole-of-government response to systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate, target American servicemen or officials, or otherwise threaten American sovereignty.

We asked leading experts to consider: What does this announcement mean in practice for U.S. interests, for the Court, and for the cases it is pursuing? Is it simply more of what has come before from past U.S. administrations or is this a fundamental shift, and if so, what might be driving it? And what does it mean for international criminal law and its enforcement more broadly?

Read Tom Dannenbaum's thoughts at justsecurity.org