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Title War crimes, conditionality and EU integration in the Western Balkans / Judy Batt [and others] ; edited by Judy Batt and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
Published Paris : Institute for Security Studies, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (103 pages)
Series Chaillot paper ; no. 116
Chaillot papers ; no. 116.
Contents Introduction / Judy Batt and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik -- Croatia after Tudjman : the ICTY and issues of transitional justice / Dejan Jovic -- Strategies of denial : resistance to ICTY cooperation in Serbia / Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik -- EU conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina : police reform and the legacy of war crimes / Tija Memisevic -- The ICTY and EU conditionality / Florence Hartmann -- Domestic war crimes trials in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia / Vojin Dimitrijevic
Summary The legacy of the wars of the 1990s continues to dog the states and societies of the former Yugoslavia and has played a not insignificant part in the slow, hesitant trajectory of the region towards the EU. At the start of the new millennium, with the removal of key wartime leaders from the political scene in both Croatia and Serbia, it was widely hoped that the region would prove able to "leave the past behind" and rapidly move on to the hopeful new agenda of EU integration. The EU's Copenhagen criteria, which in 1993 first explicitly set out the basic political conditions expected of aspirant EU member states (functioning democratic institutions, the rule of law and respect for human and minority rights) proved effective in the case of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe in supporting the entrenchment of democratic norms and practices, and stimulating reconciliation and good neighbourly relations among states and societies with unhappy histories. Thus the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAA), launched for the countries of the Western Balkans in 1999, building on this experience, included both full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and regional reconciliation among the political conditions set for advancing these countries on the path to EU integration successfully trodden by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. EU political conditionality was intended to support the efforts of new political leaders to redefine national goals away from the nationalist enmities of the past and focus firmly on tasks related to building a better future. Has it worked?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject 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.
European Union -- Membership.
SUBJECT European Union fast
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 fast
Subject War crimes -- Balkan Peninsula
European integration.
Western Balkans.
accession to the European Union.
the EU's international role.
war crime.
Membership requirements
Politics and government
War crimes
Europäische Integration
Kriegsverbrechen
SUBJECT European Union countries -- Politics and government
Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000164
Subject Balkan Peninsula
European Union countries
Westbalkan
Form Electronic book
Author Batt, Judy.
Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena
Institute for Security Studies (Paris, France)
Other Titles War crimes, conditionality and European Union integration in the Western Balkans