Antonio Arcudi

Associate Fellow

Antonio Arcudi is Asso­ciate Fellow in the Research Depart­ment Inter­national Insti­tutions at PRIF. In his research, he focuses on the contes­tation of inter­national norms and insti­tutions, in parti­cular the Inter­national Crimi­nal Court and the Respon­sibility to Protect.

Antonio Arcudi
arcudi(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2019
Asso­ciate Fellow in the Research Depart­ment Inter­national Insti­tutions at PRIF

| 2015–2019
Doctoral Re­searcher at PRIF

| 2014–2015
Research asso­ciate at the Area of Research Trans­national Gover­nance at TU Darm­stadt

| 2013
Intern at the Federal Foreign Office, Task Force “Voca­tional Education”/Depart­ment for Export Business Assis­tance

| 2011–2014
Studies in Inter­national Studies/Peace and Con­flict Research at Goethe Uni­versity Frank­furt/M. and TU Darm­stadt

| 2012–2014
Research assis­tant at the Insti­tute of Politi­cal Science (Prof Dr Markus Lederer and Prof Dr Jens Steffek) and at the Spe­cialist Field for Design and Regional Develop­ment (Prof Julian Wékel) at the TU Darm­stadt

| 2012–2014
Writing tutor with Focus on Scien­tific Writing at the Wri­ting Center of the TU Darm­stadt

| 2007–2011
Studies in Politi­cal and Eco­nomic Sciences

PhD Project

Drawing on legal discourse theory, Antonio Arcudi’s dissertation addresses the question of how contestation over international norms – their discursive challenges and controversies – in turn affects these disputed norms.

The responsibility to protect and the ICC between evolution and erosion

The dissertation “The Normative Force of Conflict: Norm Specification Through Processes of Norm Contestation” connects to existing research on international norms that, though comprehensive in its analysis of norm contestation, still lacks consensus on the issue of whether contestation has a strengthening or a weakening effect on the norms in question. Using the example of two contested international norms – the international Responsibility to Protect and the duty to prosecute grave human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law –, this project analyzes the extent to which norm contestation leads to the specification of that particular norm.

Publications

  • The Absence of Norm Modification and the Intensification of Norm Contestation: Africa and the Responsibility to Prosecute
    | 2019
    Arcudi, Antonio (2019): The Absence of Norm Modification and the Intensification of Norm Contestation: Africa and the Responsibility to Prosecute, Global Responsibility to Protect, 11: 2, 172-197.
    Publication
  • Die Responsibility to Protect im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik
    | 2016
    Arcudi, Antonio (2016): Die Responsibility to Protect im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik. Zum Zusammenhang von Normkontestation und Normerosion, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 23: 2, 78–111. DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2016-2-78

  • International Norm Disputes
    | 2023
    Zimmermann, Lisbeth; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Lesch, Max; Arcudi, Antonio; Peez, Anton (2023): International Norm Disputes. The Link Between Contestation and Norm Robustness, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Publication

  • The International Criminal Court in Difficult Times: Challenges for the 16th Assembly of States Parties
    | 2017
    Arcudi, Antonio (2017): The International Criminal Court in Difficult Times: Challenges for the 16th Assembly of States Parties, PRIF BLOG.
    Publication
  • Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof auf der Anklagebank
    | 2016
    Arcudi, Antonio (2016): Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof auf der Anklagebank, HSFK-Report, 11, Frankfurt/M.

Further Activities

| 2016–2017
Co-Speaker of PRIF's Post­graduates Collo­quium

| 2016–2017
Speaker Section B of the Leib­niz PhD Net­work