The book analyzes the political process that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It argues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) played an important role in shaping key provisions in the Court’s statute and in achieving early ratification of the ICC Statute. NGOs were able to achieve this result through their use of principled, communicatively rational argument. Thus in addition to accounting for the particular outcome of the ICC negotiations, the book also makes a contribution to our theoretical understandings of the ways that NGO discourse can transform the process of policy formation in world politics.
Author(s): Michael J. Struett
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 240
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
1 The Meaning of the International Criminal Court......Page 18
2 Norm Contestation in World Politics: Civil Society, States, and Discourse......Page 30
3 Discursive Limits: The Failure to Establish an International Criminal Court; 1946–1954......Page 66
4 Context: An Opening for an International Criminal Court; 1989–1994......Page 84
5 Negotiations: NGOs Shape the Terms of the ICC Debate; 1995–1998......Page 100
6 Building the Rome Statute: 1998......Page 126
7 Principled Discourse and the Drive for Ratification: 1998–2002......Page 148
8 The Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court......Page 168
Postscript: Construction Continues......Page 196
Notes......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 218
B......Page 230
C......Page 231
G......Page 232
I......Page 233
J......Page 234
N......Page 235
R......Page 236
S......Page 237
T......Page 238
U......Page 239
Z......Page 240
