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Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans

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Description for Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JPS; JWXK; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.

What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She finds that international efforts to establish accountability for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been used to pursue very different local political goals. Responding to international pressures, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have implemented various mechanisms of "transitional justice"—the systematic addressing of past crimes after conflicts end. Transitional justice in the three countries, however, was guided by ulterior political motives: to ... Read more

That war crimes trials (such as those in The Hague) and truth commissions (as in South Africa) are necessary and desirable has become a staple belief among those concerned with reconstructing societies after conflict. States are now expected to deal with their violent legacies in an institutional setting rather than through blanket amnesty or victor's justice. This new expectation, however, has produced paradoxical results. In order to avoid the pitfalls of hijacked justice, Subotic argues, the international community should focus on broader and deeper social transformation of postconflict societies, instead on emphasizing only arrests of war crimes suspects.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501705762
SKU
V9781501705762
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Jelena Subotic
Jelena Subotic is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. She was formerly a human rights coordinator for Open Society Institute and a contributor at Radio B-92 in Belgrade.

Reviews for Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans
Subotic argues that... international and national courts and truth commissions... have been used... to dispose of political opponents, secure economic assistance, or grease the way into the European Union. How this has happened and what those committed to making the new norms stick should do about it drive this book. Subotic goes about her study in an exceedingly clearheaded fashion; ... Read more

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