RT Article
T1 'We chose Africa': South Africa and the regional politics of cooperation with the International Criminal Court
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 11
IS 1
SP 50
OP 70
A1 Boehme, Franziska
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1565076435
AB This article examines state cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a case study of South Africa’s non-arrest of ICC suspect-at-large, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, in June 2015. Al-Bashir’s visit to South Africa brings attention to the question of why initially Court-supportive countries fail to cooperate with the ICC. Confronted with noncooperation pressure by the African Union (AU), South Africa faced a loyalty conflict in which it had to choose between its commitment to the AU and its commitment to the ICC. I argue that the South African executive’s non-arrest decision prioritized the country’s regional political reputation over its global reputation as a human rights supporter. By investigating a specific cooperation incident years after South Africa’s initial commitment to the ICC, the article highlights the temporal dimension of compliance. Incidents like these can point to potentially new perspectives on compliance and noncompliance.
NO Literaturhinweise
K1 Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
K1 Afrikanische Union
K1 Internationale Politik
K1 Politisches Verhalten
K1 Mitgliedsstaaten
K1 Internationale Organisation
K1 Internationales Recht
K1 Rechtsanwendung
K1 Strafverfolgung
K1 Internationales politisches System
K1 Position
K1 Südafrika
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijw024