Abstract
This contribution explores Croatian state compliance with International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) requests and orders with a special focus on the post-Tuđman Croatian Democratic Union led government under Ivo Sanader. I argue that compliance outcome focused research agendas that attribute meaning to compliance acts must take into account rhetorical rationalizations of compliance on the part of rule violating states that serve to reframe the meaning of both compliance and non-compliance acts. In the case of Sanader's Croatia, compliance was framed as consistent with the Croatian Democratic Union's attempt to defend the governing party's jus ad bellum narrative of the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, known domestically as the Homeland War. Rather than adopting a shared understanding of compliance with the ICTY and third party norm enforcement agents, such as European Union member states, Croatia's framing of compliance acts permitted Sanader's government to both comply with ICTY arrest and transfer orders without challenging the party's dominant narrative of the Homeland War.
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