In an article published a few years ago, my friend Jakob Holtermann compared the International Criminal Court (ICC) to a slice of Swiss cheese. The metaphor is meant to indicate that the ICC operates as a filter that deters some of the criminals left undeterred by national criminal law systems. This is true. But the metaphor also suggests that the ICC would only deter extra criminals and would not damage the deterrence achieved by preceding filters, which is false. This article explains why.

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ICC 不是一片奶酪

在几年前发表的一篇文章中，我的朋友 Jakob Holtermann 将国际刑事法院 (ICC) 比作一片瑞士奶酪。这个比喻是为了表明国际刑事法院作为一个过滤器运作，可以阻止一些不受国家刑法系统威慑的犯罪分子。这是真实的。但这个比喻也表明，国际刑事法院只会威慑更多的罪犯，不会破坏前面过滤器所达到的威慑力，这是错误的。这篇文章解释了原因。