The Institutionalization of the International Criminal Court

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This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument. It argues that after the Cold War the European Union started challenging the unilateral policies of the United States by promoting new norms and institutions, such as the ICC. This development flies in the face of traditional explanations for cooperation, which would theorize institutionalization as the result of hegemonic preponderance, rational calculations or common identities. The book explains the dynamics behind the emergence of the ICC with a novel theoretical concept of normative binding. Normative binding is a strategy that provides middle powers with the means to tie down the unilateral policies of powerful actors that prefer not to cooperate. The idea is to promote new multilateral norms and deposit them in institutions, which have the potential to become binding even on unilateralist actors, if the majority of states adhere to them. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 3-30 Theorizing the Institutionalization of the International Criminal Court (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 31-56 Front Matter ....Pages 57-57 Germany and International Criminal Law (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 59-96 The USA and the International Criminal Court (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 97-135 The European Union’s Support for the International Criminal Court (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 137-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Explaining Late Ratification of the Rome Statute (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 171-194 The Philippines’ Late Ratification of the Rome Statute (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 195-234 Why Indonesia Has Not Joined the ICC? (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 235-278 Conclusion (Salla Huikuri)....Pages 279-287 Back Matter ....Pages 289-307