The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials 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 Milošević, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milošević 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 specialists, and international law scholars bring a variety of perspectives as they examine the meaning of the trial's termination and its implications for post-conflict justice. The book's approach is intensively cross-disciplinary, weighing the implications for law, politics, and society that modern war crimes trials create. The time for such an examination is fitting, with the imminent closing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and rising debates over its legacy, as well as the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Yugoslav conflict. The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy brings thought-provoking insights into the impact of war crimes trials on post-conflict justice.
Author(s): Timothy William Waters
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
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Pages: 1671
Tags: Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006: Trials, Litigation, etc., Trials (Crimes Against Humanity): Netherlands: Hague, War Crime Trials: Netherlands: Hague, Yugoslav War, 1991–1995: Atrocities, International Tribunal For The Prosecution Of Persons Responsible For Serious Violations Of International Humanitarian Law Committed In The Territory Of The Former Yugoslavia Since 1991
Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Topical Index......Page 13
Preface: A Trial Terminated......Page 23
A Note on How To Read This Book......Page 31
Glossary......Page 39
PART ONE Vital Signs: The Milošević Trial and Its Context—A Foundational Primer......Page 43
1. The Context, Contested: Histories of Yugoslavia and Its Violent Dissolution......Page 44
2. The Forum: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia......Page 84
3. The Man on Trial: Slobodan Milošević......Page 102
4. The Trial: IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Milošević......Page 109
PART TWO Causes of Death......Page 135
5. Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milošević Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force)......Page 136
6. Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milošević Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University)......Page 157
7. Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milošević Gideon Boas (Monash University)......Page 174
8. Joinder, Fairness, and the Goals of International Criminal Justice Frédéric Mégret (McGill University)......Page 192
9. Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible Carla Del Ponte (Former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR)......Page 210
10. Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution Kelly Dawn Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative)......Page 226
11. In the Shadow of Nonrecognition: Milošević and the Self-Represented Accused’s Right to Justice Evelyn Anoya (Special Tribunal for Lebanon)......Page 235
12. The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)......Page 255
PART THREE Reporting the Demise......Page 263
13. Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks’ Perceptions of the Milošević Trial Safia Swimelar (Elon University)......Page 264
14. The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milošević Trial in Croatia Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen)......Page 288
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)......Page 299
16. Conversations with Milošević: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group)......Page 309
17. Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians’ Reactions to the Milošević Trial Frances Trix (Indiana University)......Page 318
18. Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)......Page 343
19. Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media Klaus Bachmann (University of Social Sciences and Humanities—Warsaw)......Page 357
20. The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milošević Judith Armatta (Formerly Coalition for International Justice)......Page 380
PART FOUR Final Examination......Page 394
21. Dead Man’s Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milošević Trial Timothy William Waters (Indiana University)......Page 395
22. Beyond the Theater of International Justice: The Rule 98bis Decision in Milošević Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science)......Page 421
23. Can We Salvage a History of the Former Yugoslav Conflicts from the Milošević Trial? Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University)......Page 434
24. Do Historians Need a Verdict? Florian Bieber (University of Graz)......Page 462
25. Body of Evidence: The Prosecution’s Construction of Milošević Marko Prelec (International Crisis Group)......Page 471
26. Milošević and the Justice of Peace Alexander K.A. Greenawalt (Pace University)......Page 496
PART FIVE Disposing of the Body......Page 508
27. The Parting of Ways: Public Reckoning with the Recent Past in Post-Milošević Serbia Jasna Dragović-Soso (Goldsmiths, University of London)......Page 509
28. Antecedents to a Debate: Conflicts over the Transfer of Milošević Vesna Pešić (Member of Parliament of the Republic of Serbia)......Page 533
29. The Show and the Trial: The Political Death of Milošević Florian Bieber (University of Graz)......Page 545
30. From Politics to Law, to Tedium, and Back Mark A. Drumbl (Washington & Lee University)......Page 566
PART SIX Reanimation: Designing Trials and Doing Justice after Milošević......Page 570
31. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Judging Milošević and Serbia before the ICTY and ICJ Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)......Page 571
32. Ambiguous Choices in the Trials of Milošević’s Serbia Tibor Várady (Central European University; Emory University)......Page 594
33. Abdicated Legacy: The Prosecution’s Use of Evidence from Milošević Florence Hartmann (Formerly Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY)......Page 601
34. The Spider and the System: Milošević and Joint Criminal Enterprise Harmen van der Wilt (University of Amsterdam)......Page 626
PART SEVEN Biopsy: The Legacies of Milošević......Page 632
Time Line with Chronological Index: The Milošević Trial in Context......Page 634
Notes......Page 688
Bibliography......Page 836
Acknowledgments......Page 922
Author Biographies......Page 924
Index......Page 936
Footnotes......Page 1013
