Sign Up or Sign Off: Asia’s Reluctant Engagement with the International Criminal Court

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: International criminal court; ratification; Asia Pacific; resistance to engagement; Asian Studies; Courts; Criminal Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2050; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4002/viewcontent/SignupOrSignoff.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The International Criminal Court argues that there is a need to achieve universal ratification so that the majority of mankind will no longer remain outside the protection of the ICC. In the Asia/Pacific region there is a relatively low accession rate of nation states to the Rome Statute. This paper...