The dog that did not bark: the EU and the clash between sovereignty and justice in the International Criminal Court
In: European Security, Jg. 30 (2021-07-03), S. 402-417
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The cosmopolitan character of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is not immune to the growing surge in the contestation of international institutions. The African Union’s reaction to the ICC decision to indict the then sitting heads of state of Sudan and Kenya, and the actions undertaken by the Trump Administration against the Court over possible investigations into Afghanistan and Palestine, are cases in point. This article explores what that surge has meant for intra-EU debates on its position towards the ICC. We present a two-fold argument based on an empirical analysis of key moments in the institutional development of the Court that coincide with the pre- and post-rise phases in the politicisation of international institutions. First, the level of agreement on the ICC within the EU has been grossly exaggerated. Second, despite bouts of disagreement, patterns of political conflict over the ICC within the EU remain constant. That is, there is recurrent polarisation, with a range of opinions on the intractable debate about Westphalian sovereignty vs. cosmopolitan justice, but no change in the other two dimensions of politicisation (salience and actor range). This article falls under the EU-NormCon research project (Normative contestation in Europe: Implications for the EU in a changing global order), funded by the National R+D Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2016-79205-P); and by the COST Action ENTER (EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities, grant number CA17119), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
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The dog that did not bark: the EU and the clash between sovereignty and justice in the International Criminal Court
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Costa, Oriol ; Badell, Diego ; Collantes-Celador, G. |
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Zeitschrift: | European Security, Jg. 30 (2021-07-03), S. 402-417 |
Veröffentlichung: | Informa UK Limited, 2021 |
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ISSN: | 1746-1545 (print) ; 0966-2839 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1080/09662839.2021.1947801 |
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