... institutional theory, and the application of social theory to the study of global politics. wayne sandholtz is Professor in the Department of Political Scienceat the University of California, ... in partic-ular the role of the Security Council, the powers of the prosecutor, the questions of jurisdiction and state consent, the issue of complementar-ity, and harmonising of diverse legal ... relationship between politics and law through an examination of the major issues that divided the United States from the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute of the Court,...