Michael J. Struett
Macmillan (May 2008)
http://us.macmillan.com/thepoliticsofconstructingtheinternationalcriminalcourt
About the book: 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.
Members of the ISA Ethics section may be particularly interested in the books claim that the reason of NGO effectiveness in the ICC negotiations rested in part on their use of ethical and normative arguments, as understood in communicative action theory.
About the author: Michael J. Struett is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He completed his Phd in 2005 at the University of California, Irvine. He received his bachelor's degree in political science with honors from Cal- Berkeley in 1995. He also has a 1998 master's degree from George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs. Much of Dr. Struett’s work focuses on the impact of non-governmental organizations in world politics, particularly the importance of their participation in processes of global governance. He is generally interested in the evolution of norms in world politics, and the role of international organizations and international law in contributing to world order.
Contact: mjstruet@ncsu.edu
