Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The ICTY's Role in Serbia'sand Croatia's EU Accession - an Agent or a Principal of Europeanisation? -- Introduction -- Europeanisation -- Principal-Agent Dichotomy -- Historical Background: The Policies of the EU and the ICTY toward Serbia and Croatia -- Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s: Key Events in Retrospect -- The ICTY 1993-2001: Between Power Politics and "Rhetorical Action" -- The European Union 1990-1999: Transitional Justice Conditionality and Enlargement -- Transitional Justice Policy Changes of the EU Towards Croatia -- From Tudjman's Death to Gotovina's Indictment -- The Postponement of Croatia's Entry Negotiations -- The Run-Up to Gotovina's Arrest -- The EU's Transitional Justice Policy Changes Towards Serbia -- From Milo evi to Karad i and Mladi -- The EU's and Serbia's Local Politics -- Karad i 's arrest and the quest for Mladi -- The Transfer of Mladi and Had i -- Conclusions -- Part II External Influences on Judging at International Criminal Tribunals -- Introduction -- Fact-Finding, Evidence and Testimony -- Four Case Studies of External Influence and Judges' Frames of the Conflicts -- Framing the Past in International Criminal Tribunals -- The Frames Concerning the Conflict in Rwanda in April 1994 and the Death of Belgian Soldiers in Rwanda in 1994 -- The Belgian Government's Frames -- The Frames of the Rwandan Government -- The New York Times Frames -- The Frames of Le Monde -- The Frames of the US Government -- Other Frames: Gourevitch and Dallaire -- The Frames of the UN -- The Organisation of African Unity's Frames -- The Frames of Human Rights Watch -- The Prosecutor's Frames -- The Frames of the Trial Chamber in the Pros. vs. Bagosoraet al. -- Resisting Powerful External Frames -- The Frames in the Prosecutor vs. Akayesu -- The Frames of International Media.

The Frames of International Non-Governmental Organisations -- The Frames of the Prosecution -- The Frames of the Trial Chamber -- What Powerful Frames Can Achieve -- The Frames Concerning the Behaviour of Dutchbat in Srebrenica in July 1994 -- The Dutch Government's Frames Concerning Srebrenica -- Human Rights Watch's Frames -- The United Nations' Frames -- Other Frames -- The Frames of the Trial Chamber in the Pros. vs. Krsti -- The Frames of the Appeals Chamber in the Pros. vs. Krsti -- Judges as Agenda-Setters -- The Frames of the Ra ak Events in Kosovo -- Two Antagonistic Frames From Governments -- Media Frames -- The Frames of the US Government -- The Frames of the French Government -- The Frames of The New York Times -- The Frames of Le Monde -- The Frames of Human Rights Watch -- The Frames of the Kosovo Liberation Army -- The Prosecution Frames About the Events in Ra ak -- The Frames of the Trial Chamber in the Pros. vs. Djordjevi -- Establishing the Level of Congruence between Judges' and External Actors' Frames -- Explaining Judicial Behaviour at the ICTY and the ICTR -- Part III Politicizing Tribunals? Reconciliation in Sentencing and Judging at the ICTR and the ICT -- Concepts of Reconciliation -- Reconciliation in Theory -- Reconciliation Within Social Space -- Reconciliation as Truth Production and Memory Work -- Reconciliation and Legal Space -- Reconciliation as a Discoursive Device -- Reconciliation and the Everyday -- Result: An Open Definition -- How Justice Contributes to Reconciliation: A Typology -- Sublating Vengeance -- Acknowledging Victims -- Individualizing Guilt -- Consolidating Democracy and the Rule of Law -- Ending Impunity -- Generating Truth -- The Concept of Reconciliation at the ICTR -- Important documents -- Sentences -- Reconciliation Through Retribution?.

Reconciliation and Plea Bargaining: A Restorative Understanding -- Strategic Signifying: Retributive Versus Restorative Interpretations of Reconciliation -- Findings -- Reconciliation at the ICTY -- Reconciliation in ICTY Trials: Guilty Pleas and Plea Bargaining -- Reconciliation in the Pros. vs. Erdemovi -- Reconciliation as a Rhetorical Smokescreen- the Pros. vs. Plav i -- Individual Identity Transformation with Fatal Consequences - the Pros. vs. Babi -- Reconciliation and Guilty Pleas of Low-Level Perpetrators -- Reconciliation Without a Guilty Plea -- Reconciliation at the ICTR and the ICTY: Findings -- Conclusion: Actorness and Autonomy of the ICTY and the ICTR -- Literature, Sources, and Databases -- Information about the interviews -- Databases and Electronic Archives -- Bibliography -- List of Abbreviations -- Index of Names.