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- Evaluates the success of the intended expressivist goals of domestic and international war crimes trials dealing with the 1991-1995 Croatian conflict
- Highlights how dominant everyday narratives are and the difficulty that top-down judicial narratives can face
- Focuses on the political sociology of law, rather than strictly legal ramifications
Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“International Courts and Mass Atrocity provides an in-depth analysis of the transitional justice process in Croatia. Sokolić not only works through the fault lines of the ICTY regarding the case of Croatia, but also sheds light on an issue that the international criminal justice system as a whole often neglects: namely, the strength of the local in creating and maintaining war narratives. The book is therefore a must-read for transitional justice scholars and practitioners both in the Balkans and beyond.” (Ebru Demir, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk,May 08, 2019) “International institutions tried to introduce standards and values of universal human rights into post-conflict environments, and it often looks like they have failed. Why? These concepts enter into spaces that are already populated: by narratives and myths, values and interests, emotions and memories. Sokolić breaks new ground in understanding how societies approach the past in this study, using focus groups and innovative analysis to show how different social groups in Croatia interpret justice and war.” (Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK)
“Ivor Sokolić provides a persuasive account of constraints at the everyday level that distort universal norms of transitional justice in Croatia. This study extends our understanding of challenges in post-conflict recovery of this understudied case in the Balkans. With its combination of original theory building and innovative qualitative analysis, it will be of interest to all scholars puzzled by the question why international and domestic war crimes trials fail to promote justice and reconciliation.” (Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor in Global Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
“This timely and engaging study about the impact of war crimes trials in Croatia deftly portrays how key segments of Croatian society perceive the legacy of the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995) and interethnic relations. Sokolic’s bottom-up approach provides crucial insights into nation-building narratives, interpretations of the recent past, attitudes towards transitional justice mechanisms and the potential for reconciliation in post-conflict societies.” (Vjeran Pavlaković, Associate Professor, University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Ivor Sokolić
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Courts and Mass Atrocity
Book Subtitle: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia
Authors: Ivor Sokolić
Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90841-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90840-3Published: 18 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08112-6Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90841-0Published: 07 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-3840
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 229
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, International Criminal Law , European Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics, Political Sociology