This book analyses the relationship between law and violence, the utility of law over violence and whether legality as an approach has an inherent disability in addressing aggression as a crime. The study is located within international law and seeks to determine whether prosecuting the crime of aggression would necessarily entail an abuse of the legal process. The intention is to refute the arguments against defining the crime of aggression that favour political action under the United Nations Charter instead of the legal process such as in the International Criminal Court in framing aggression. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 considers the controversies over the location of debating the crime of aggression in either law or politics. Part 2 expounds on the legal approach to the problems outlined. Part 3 examines the application of the legal method. The work is illustrated with examples from Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Kenya.

The work will be of interest to those working in the areas of International Criminal Justice, International Law, Legal theory, and International Relations.