How the Court will handle its relationship with the UN Security Council as well as several emerging powers, including Brazil, India, and South Africa, will determine whether the Court will be able to be perceived as a legitimate actor in its own right, or as just another political tool in the hands of powerful and at times unaccountable states. This risk of politicization has been greatly increased subsequent to the agreement in Kampala on the crime of aggression. As events in Sudan and Libya demonstrate, these risks of politicization are very real and risk undermining the image of the ICC as an independent and impartial institution.Rafael De Bustamante, European External Action Service; Former EU Focal Point for the ICCMedlir Mema, Visiting Researcher, Institute for European Studies & PhD-Candidate, George Washington UniversityWei Xiaohong, Ph.D. candidate, International Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Renmin University of China; Member of the Editorial Board of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (FICHL)Sunil Pal, Head of the Legal Section of the Coalition for the ICC (CICC)