International Criminal Court (ICC) supporters argue that there is a need to achieve universal ratification so that the majority of mankind will no longer remain outside the protection of the ICC. In the Asia/Pacific region there is a relatively low accession rate of nation states to the Rome Statute. This paper proposes a taxonomy of resistance to ratification in the region, recognizing that in speculating on the reasons for resistance to the ratification of international criminal justice mechanisms—from the local to the global—across Asia and the Pacific, there is a risk in both over emphasizing cultural and political difference and at the same time seeking universal themes at the expense of real jurisdictional peculiarities. After sketching this taxonomy, the paper in part meets the paradox that in Africa and South America, where similar features of possible resistance exist, the ratification process has been much more widespread.