The Milošević Trial: An Autopsy

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The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milošević, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milošević died in 2006. Yet precisely because it ended without judgment, its significance and legacy are specially contested. The contributors to this volume, including trial participants, area specialists, and international law scholars bring a variety of perspectives as they examine the meaning of the trial's termination and its implications for post-conflict justice. The book's approach is intensively cross-disciplinary, weighing the implications for law, politics, and society that modern war crimes trials create. The time for such an examination is fitting, with the imminent closing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and rising debates over its legacy, as well as the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Yugoslav conflict. The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy brings thought-provoking insights into the impact of war crimes trials on post-conflict justice. Cover Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright Page......Page 4 Dedication......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Topical Index......Page 13 Preface: A Trial Terminated......Page 23 A Note on How To Read This Book......Page 31 Glossary......Page 39 PART ONE Vital Signs: The Milošević Trial and Its Context—A Foundational Primer......Page 43 1. The Context, Contested: Histories of Yugoslavia and Its Violent Dissolution......Page 44 2. The Forum: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia......Page 84 3. The Man on Trial: Slobodan Milošević......Page 102 4. The Trial: IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Milošević......Page 109 PART TWO Causes of Death......Page 135 5. Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milošević Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force)......Page 136 6. Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milošević Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University)......Page 157 7. Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milošević Gideon Boas (Monash University)......Page 174 8. Joinder, Fairness, and the Goals of International Criminal Justice Frédéric Mégret (McGill University)......Page 192 9. Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible Carla Del Ponte (Former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR)......Page 210 10. Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution Kelly Dawn Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative)......Page 226 11. In the Shadow of Nonrecognition: Milošević and the Self-Represented Accused’s Right to Justice Evelyn Anoya (Special Tribunal for Lebanon)......Page 235 12. The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)......Page 255 PART THREE Reporting the Demise......Page 263 13. Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks’ Perceptions of the Milošević Trial Safia Swimelar (Elon University)......Page 264 14. The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milošević Trial in Croatia Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen)......Page 288 15. Another Report on the Banality of Evil: The Cultural Politics of the Milošević Trial in Kosovo Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina; University of Ljubljana)......Page 299 16. Conversations with Milošević: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group)......Page 309 17. Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians’ Reactions to the Milošević Trial Frances Trix (Indiana University)......Page 318 18. Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)......Page 343 19. Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media Klaus Bachmann (University of Social Sciences and Humanities—Warsaw)......Page 357 20. The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milošević Judith Armatta (Formerly Coalition for International Justice)......Page 380 PART FOUR Final Examination......Page 394 21. Dead Man’s Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milošević Trial Timothy William Waters (Indiana University)......Page 395 22. Beyond the Theater of International Justice: The Rule 98bis Decision in Milošević Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science)......Page 421 23. Can We Salvage a History of the Former Yugoslav Conflicts from the Milošević Trial? Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University)......Page 434 24. Do Historians Need a Verdict? Florian Bieber (University of Graz)......Page 462 25. Body of Evidence: The Prosecution’s Construction of Milošević Marko Prelec (International Crisis Group)......Page 471 26. Milošević and the Justice of Peace Alexander K.A. Greenawalt (Pace University)......Page 496 PART FIVE Disposing of the Body......Page 508 27. The Parting of Ways: Public Reckoning with the Recent Past in Post-Milošević Serbia Jasna Dragović-Soso (Goldsmiths, University of London)......Page 509 28. Antecedents to a Debate: Conflicts over the Transfer of Milošević Vesna Pešić (Member of Parliament of the Republic of Serbia)......Page 533 29. The Show and the Trial: The Political Death of Milošević Florian Bieber (University of Graz)......Page 545 30. From Politics to Law, to Tedium, and Back Mark A. Drumbl (Washington & Lee University)......Page 566 PART SIX Reanimation: Designing Trials and Doing Justice after Milošević......Page 570 31. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Judging Milošević and Serbia before the ICTY and ICJ Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)......Page 571 32. Ambiguous Choices in the Trials of Milošević’s Serbia Tibor Várady (Central European University; Emory University)......Page 594 33. Abdicated Legacy: The Prosecution’s Use of Evidence from Milošević Florence Hartmann (Formerly Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY)......Page 601 34. The Spider and the System: Milošević and Joint Criminal Enterprise Harmen van der Wilt (University of Amsterdam)......Page 626 PART SEVEN Biopsy: The Legacies of Milošević......Page 632 Time Line with Chronological Index: The Milošević Trial in Context......Page 634 Notes......Page 688 Bibliography......Page 836 Acknowledgments......Page 922 Author Biographies......Page 924 Index......Page 936 Footnotes......Page 1013