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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823779503321

Titolo

The Milošević trial : an autopsy / / edited by Timothy William Waters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-19-934527-9

0-19-932397-6

0-19-934420-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1764 p.)

Disciplina

341.690268

Soggetti

Trials (Crimes against humanity) - Netherlands - Hague

War crime trials - Netherlands - Hague

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Topical Index; Preface: A Trial Terminated; A Note on How To Read This Book; Glossary; PART ONE Vital Signs: The Milošević Trial and Its Context-A Foundational Primer; 1. The Context, Contested: Histories of Yugoslavia and Its Violent Dissolution; 2. The Forum: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; 3. The Man on Trial: Slobodan Milošević; 4. The Trial: IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Milošević; PART TWO Causes of Death

5. Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milošević Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force)6. Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milošević Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University); 7. Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milošević Gideon Boas (Monash University); 8. Joinder, Fairness, and the Goals of International Criminal Justice Frédéric Mégret (McGill University); 9. Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible Carla Del Ponte (Former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR)

10. Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution Kelly Dawn Askin



(Open Society Justice Initiative)11. In the Shadow of Nonrecognition: Milošević and the Self-Represented Accused's Right to Justice Evelyn Anoya (Special Tribunal for Lebanon); 12. The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation Yuval Shany (Hebrew University); PART THREE Reporting the Demise; 13. Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks' Perceptions of the Milošević Trial Safia Swimelar (Elon University)

14. The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milošević Trial in Croatia Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen)15. Another Report on the Banality of Evil: The Cultural Politics of the Milošević Trial in Kosovo Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina;  University of Ljubljana); 16. Conversations with Milošević: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group); 17. Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians' Reactions to the Milošević Trial Frances Trix (Indiana University)

18. Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)19. Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media Klaus Bachmann (University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Warsaw); 20. The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milošević Judith Armatta (Formerly Coalition for International Justice); PART FOUR Final Examination

21. Dead Man's Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milošević Trial Timothy William Waters (Indiana University)

Sommario/riassunto

The Milosevic Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of the most controversial war crimes trial of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milosevic, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milosevic died in 2006. Yet precisely because it ended without judgment, its significance and legacy are specially contested. The contributors to this volume, including trial participants, area specialist