Transitional Justice and Theory of Change

Evidence from the post-Yugoslav Region
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-21552-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume critically assesses how, why, and under what conditions transitional justice (TJ) processes shape social, political, and ethical transformation in the post-Yugoslav region.

The book offers an evidence-based approach to TJ by placing Theory of Change (ToC) at its core. It conducts a longitudinal, multi-level, multi-method regional analysis that is practically non-existent in TJ literature, especially one using a unified analytical framework. Moving beyond the long-dominant binaries of ‘success’ versus ‘failure’, the book exposes the hidden assumptions guiding international and domestic interventions and reveals the fragmented, recursive, and deeply political nature of post-conflict change. Drawing on one of the world’s most extensive real-life ‘laboratories’ of post-conflict interventions, the post-Yugoslav region, the book exposes the limits of technocratic, box-ticking approaches and illuminates the lived realities, unintended consequences, and transformative potential of truth-seeking, trials, reparations, and memorialisation. Its original contribution lies in reframing justice as a continuum, not a one-off transition, and in foregrounding meaningfulness—change that resonates, empowers, and endures, to meaningfully support long-term justice in contexts of protracted transition.

This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, Balkan politics, human rights, law and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miloševic, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Geoffrey Dancy 1. Transitional Justice and Theory of Change: Evidence from the Post-Yugoslav Region, Ana Miloševic  PART I: TRANSITION VS TRANSFORMATION  2. Lost in Transition: The EU and Evidence-based Evaluation of Transitional Justice Processes in the post-Yugoslav Region, Ana Miloševic  3. The Regional Approach to Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans: Creating Understanding of Dealing with the Past, Christina Eva Griessler  PART II: CRIMINAL JUSTICE  4. Talking about a War Criminal: How did the Trial of Radovan Karadžic Change Discursive Engagement with Transitional Justice?, Ivor Sokolic  5. Criminal Justice Façade: Actors and Dynamics of TJ Ethnonationalist Capture in Serbia, Vladimir Petrovic and Novak Vuco  6. Reparative Justice in the Post-Yugoslav Space, Jessie Barton Hronešová and Eric Gordy  PART III: TRUTH, MEMORY AND HISTORY  7. Commemoration, Transformative Practices, and Civic Futures: The Case of Vukovar, Ana Devic and Peter Vermeersch  8. Albania's Archival Crossroads: Transitional Justice, Memory Politics, and the EU's Transformative Potential, Esmiralda Kolaneci and Ana Miloševic  PART IV: LESSONS (UN)LEARNED  9. A Haunted Future and Perpetual Transitions: EU, Transitional Justice Processes and the Role of Journalists in Post-Conflict Contexts, Abit Hoxha  10. The European Parliament’s Memory Politics and its Approaches to Post-Conflict Justice and Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Ukraine, Andrea Apollonio  11. A Meaningful Change: More than ‘Justice’, more than ‘Transition’, Ana Miloševic  Epilogue: Transitional Justice is Coming of Age, Stephan Parmentier

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Miloševic is a Research fellow at the Institute for European Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, with habilitation in Sociology (Italy). She is the editor of Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans (2021) and the author of Victims and Memory After Terrorism (2024).