'Our identity is our currency': South Africa, the responsibility to protect and the logic of African intervention

• Published in: Conflict, security & development Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 509 - 534
• Main Authors: Verhoeven, Harry, Murthy, C.S.R., Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 08.08.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Africa; Citizens; Convergence; Emerging powers; Foreign Policy; Identity; Ideology; Intellectuals; Intervention; Peoples Republic of China; Political History; Responsibilities; Russia; Security; South Africa; South Africa; Libya; China; Russia

Heavyweights of South Africa's ruling African National Congress claim that the responsibility to protect citizens in the case of an unwilling or unable government is an African concept, owned by the continent: rooted in the security-development crisis of the past few decades, Pretoria stresses...