54 research outputs found
African Challenges to the International Criminal Court: An Example of Populism?
Recent global efforts of the United States and England to withdraw from
international institutions, along with recent challenges to human rights courts from
Poland and Hungary, have been described as part of a growing global populist
backlash against the liberal international order. Several scholars have even identified
the recent threat of mass withdrawal of African states from the International Criminal
Court (ICC) as part of this global populist backlash. Are the African challenges to the
ICC part of a global populist movement developing in Africa? More fundamentally,
how are the African challenges to the ICC examples of populism, if at all? In this
paper, I show that, while there is considerable overlap between the strategies used by
particular African leaders to challenge the ICC and those typically considered
populist, as well as a discernible thin populist ideology to sustain them, there is
insufficient evidence of a larger anti-ICC populist movement in Africa. Although
Africa is not as united against the ICC as the populist narrative suggests, the recent
challenges to the Court from Africa pose a significant challenge to the Court, as the
institution is still in the early stages of building its legitimacy
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There is a crucial ingredient that needs to be thrown into the wave of protests sweeping the continent if Africa is to put protracted armed rebellion behind it.
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