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Author Gordy, Eric D., 1966- author.

Title Guilt, responsibility, and denial : the past at stake in post-Milosevic Serbia / Eric Gordy
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations
Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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
Summary 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 Miloševi? was forced out of power in 2000, assessing where transitional justice has achieved its goals, where it has not, and why it matters
Analysis Human Rights
Law
Political Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Serbia -- Influence
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Serbia -- History -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000815
Serbia -- Politics and government -- 1992-2006. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001007009
Serbia -- Politics and government -- 2006- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008004067
Serbia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Serbia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812208603
0812208609
0812245350
9780812245356
1322513945
9781322513942