Scholars have suggested that ratifying international treaties and implementing them within national legal systems can lead to the acceptance and (eventually) internalisation of international norms. Likewise, failing to ratify might suggest that states reject such norms. Similarly, ratifying the Rome Statute can be promoted as the primary measure to give effect to the norms protected by international criminal law. This perspective of the diffusion of international criminal justice involves at least three characteristics. First, a temporal aspect, in that states are expected to progress from rejecting international criminal justice toward acceptance over time. Second, it reveals a spatial awareness, including by distinguishing between international and ‘local’ norms and actors. Third, this approach includes assumptions about the movement of ideas across both time and space, or directionality. This article challenges temporal, spatial, and directional assumptions about how states engage with international criminal justice with reference to experiences in Southeast Asia.

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跨越时空构建国际刑事司法

学者们认为，批准国际条约并在国家法律体系内实施它们可以导致国际规范的接受和（最终）内化。同样，未能批准可能表明国家拒绝此类规范。同样，可以促进批准《罗马规约》，将其作为实施受国际刑法保护的规范的主要措施。这种国际刑事司法传播的观点至少涉及三个特征。首先，时间方面，随着时间的推移，预计各国将从拒绝国际刑事司法走向接受。其次，它揭示了一种空间意识，包括区分国际和“地方”规范和行为者。第三，这种方法包括关于思想跨越时间和空间的运动或方向性的假设。本文参考东南亚的经验，挑战了关于国家如何参与国际刑事司法的时间、空间和方向假设。