Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia

✍ Scribed by Eric Gordy

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In one of the first studies to look at how the Yugoslav wars are understood in Serbian culture, Eric Gordy examines the legacy that confronted the country when Slobodan Milošević was forced out of power in 2000, assessing where transitional justice has achieved its goals, where it has not, and why it matters.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Guilt and responsibility: problems, history, and law
2. The formation of public opinion: Serbia in 2001
3. Moment I: The Leader Is Not Invincible
4. Approaches to Guilt
5. Moment II: The Djindjić Murder, from Outrage to Confusion
6. Denial, Avoidance, Shifts of Context: From Denial to Responsibility in Eleven Steps
7. Moment III: The ‘‘Scorpions’’ and the Refinement of Denial
Nonmoments: Milošević, Karadžic, Šešelj, and Mladić
9. Politics and Culture in Approaching the Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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