David Maimela

David Maimela is Researcher at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflections (MISTRA), in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a post-graduate student of International Relations.

The principle of Responsibility to Protect in retrospect

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as applied in Libya promoted regime change and western interests. Resistance to a proposed intervention in Syria shows emerging powers and public opinion will not accept an ends justify the means logic, and the US ‘exceptionalism’ that is said to justify it. A c

By David Maimela

/ 28 Oct 2013