A history of political trials : from Charles I to Charles Taylor

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Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Trial of Charles I and the Last Judgement 2 The Trial of Louis XVI and the Terror 3 War Guilt after World War I 4 Defeat in the Dock: the Riom Trial 5 Justice as Purge: Marshal Pétain Faces his Accusers 6 Treachery on Trial: the Case of Vidkun Quisling 7 Nuremberg: Making War Illegal 8 Creating Legitimacy: the Trial of Marshal Antonescu 9 Ethnic Cleansing and National Cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1947 10 People’s Justice in Liberated Hungary 11 From Mass Execution to Amnesty and Pardon: Postwar Trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece 12 Politics as Conspiracy: the Tokyo Trials 13 The Yassıada Trial, the Greek Colonels, Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine generals: Transitional justice, 1960–2007 14 Revolution Returns: the Trial of Nicolae Ceauşescu 15 A State on Trial: Erich Honecker in Moabit 16 Jean Kambanda, Convicted without Trial 17 Kosovo and the New World Order: the Trial of Slobodan Milošević 18 Regime Change and the Trial of Saddam Hussein 19 The Trial of Charles Taylor 20 The Punishment Ethic in International Relations Notes Bibliography and Further Reading Index