I spent a year in The Netherlands conducting the research upon which this book is based. I commuted frequently from my home in Leiden to The Hague to interview officials of the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, nongovernmental organization personnel, embassy officials, journalists, and academics.

I was honored and much assisted by an appointment as visiting professor at Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and by the hospitality of the T. M. C. Asser Institute, both in The Hague. At the Grotius Centre, I especially thank John Dugard, Roelof Haveman, Machteld Boot, and Christine Tremblay. At the Asser Institute, I am grateful to Olivier Ribbelink, Avril McDonald, and Paula Kersbergen. For his general enthusiasm, help in making various arrangements, and for his wonderful family's kind hospitality, I thank Sam Muller. Susan Somers warmly included me and my family into her circle of friends, for which we are very grateful.

Isebill V. Gruhn of the University of California, Santa Cruz, provided me with invaluable comments while I was writing this book. Mistakes of fact or judgment herein, I'm sorry to say, are entirely my own.

In The Hague at the International Criminal Court, in embassies, and while visiting nongovernmental organizations, journalists, and academics, I was very fortunate to receive candid commentary on the monumental tasks facing the Court. With very few exceptions, because of the sensitivity of their comments and/or positions, my interlocutors did not want to be quoted or cited.