Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial : : The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia / / Eric Gordy.

When the regime led by Slobodan Milošević came to an end in October 2000, expectations for social transformation in Serbia and the rest of the Balkans were high. The international community declared that an era of human rights had begun, while domestic actors hoped that the conditions that had made...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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