Frictions and Logics of ‘Good State’ Support to International Criminal Justice: The Case of Norway

Despite the significance of state support to international criminal justice institutions, we lack systematic knowledge about what animates states’ foreign policy on international criminal justice, as well as how international criminal justice impacts domestic societies. This article analyses a subset of findings regarding Norway from the EU cost Action ( ca 18228) survey on States’ encounters with international criminal justice. While Norway’s positioning in the ‘global atrocity justice constellation’ is driven by strategic foreign policy aims to protect and strengthen the liberal international order, the paper reveals how the ‘State’ in international criminal justice is far from a homogenous, unitary entity, but rather is composed of conflicting and incongruent logics of governance impacting its support to international criminal justice.