LEADER 04186nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910789840703321 005 20230721013917.0 010 $a0-8014-5934-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459344 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079134 035 $a(OCoLC)726824344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457695 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484941 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307126 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484941 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594529 035 $a(PQKB)10509529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138073 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28951 035 $a(DE-B1597)534392 035 $a(OCoLC)1121058283 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457695 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079134 100 $a20140717d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHijacked justice$b[electronic resource] $edealing with the past in the Balkans /$fJelena Subotic? 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2007. 311 0 $a0-8014-4802-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction. THE IMPORTANCE OF DEALING WITH THE PAST --$t1. THE POLITICS OF HIJACKED JUSTICE --$t2. THE PAST IS NOT YET OVER --$t3. THE TRUTH IS IN CROATIA'S FAVOR --$t4. WHO LIVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? --$tConclusion. HIJACKED JUSTICE BEYOND THE BALKANS --$tIndex 330 $aWhat 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 get rid of domestic political opponents, to obtain international financial aid, or to gain admission to the European Union. Subotic argues that when transitional justice becomes "hijacked" for such local political strategies, it fosters domestic backlash, deepens political instability, and even creates alternative, politicized versions of history. 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. 606 $aWar crimes$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aTransitional justice$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aTruth commissions$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aPostwar reconstruction$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xAtrocities 615 0$aWar crimes 615 0$aTransitional justice 615 0$aTruth commissions 615 0$aPostwar reconstruction 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xAtrocities. 676 $a341.6/909497 700 $aSubotic$b Jelena$01576016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789840703321 996 $aHijacked justice$93853477 997 $aUNINA