Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- About the International Center for Transitional Justice -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- FROM AMNESTIES TO ADJUDICATION: NATIONAL RESPONSES TO HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES -- THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS -- DOMESTIC CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS -- A NEW KIND OF POLITICAL TRIAL -- SIXTY-SEVEN CASES -- CASE STUDIES OF PROSECUTIONS OF HEADS OF STATE -- FINAL QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- 2 Prosecutions of Heads of State in Europe -- EUROPEAN ANTECEDENTS TO CONTEMPORARY TRIALS OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- DOMESTIC TRIALS FOR WORLD WAR II CRIMES -- POST-WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN TRIALS OF SENIOR POLITICAL FIGURES -- CASES AGAINST AGING NAZIS -- THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA -- UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN EUROPEAN COURTS -- INDICTMENTS AND PROSECUTIONS OF EUROPEAN HEADS OF STATE ON CORRUPTION TRIALS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 Prosecutions of Heads of State in Latin America -- LIONS IN WINTER: HUMAN RIGHTS CASES AGAINST HEADS OF STATE -- THE CORRUPTION CASES -- OBSTACLES TO PROSECUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 The Multiple Prosecutions of Augusto Pinochet -- THE SPANISH CASE -- THE EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS - PINOCHET I -- PINOCHET'S LAWYERS STRIKE BACK - PINOCHET II -- THE SPANISH PROCEEDINGS CONTINUE -- STATE IMMUNITY AND DOUBLE CRIMINALITY - PINOCHET III -- THE CASE AT HOME -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 5 A Leader Takes Flight: The Indictment of Alberto Fujimori -- THE ANTECEDENTS -- THE ACCUSED -- THE FLIGHT TO JAPAN -- THE NEW OFFICIAL POLICY CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE ACTS ATTRIBUTED TO ALBERTO FUJIMORI -- THE DEFINING CASES: BARRIOS ALTOS AND LA CANTUTA -- EXTRADITION -- THE ACCUSED AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESS -- THE POLITICAL AND POPULAR RESPONSE TO THE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS -- CONCLUSION.

NOTES -- 6 Charm and Punishment: How the Philippines' Leading Man Became Its Most Famous Prisoner -- POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK -- THE ESTRADA STORY -- IMPEACHMENT -- ARREST -- TRIAL -- FROM CONVICTION TO PARDON IN FORTY-THREE DAYS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 Shifting Legitimacy: The Trials of Frederick Chiluba -- ZAMBIA AND CORRUPTION -- PHASE I - PRELUDE TO THE TRIALS -- Chiluba's Third-Term Bid -- "Chiluba Is a Thief" -- The Turn of President Mwanawasa -- PHASE II - THE TRIALS: A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS -- Political Support -- Financial and Technical Assistance -- Legal Support -- CONCLUSION: SHIFTING LEGITIMACY? -- NOTES -- 8 A Justice "Trickle-Down": Rwanda's First Postgenocide President on Trial -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- Bizimungu's Rise -- Bizimungu's Fall -- RWANDA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM -- National Justice -- International Justice -- Bizimungu's Trial -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 9 Justice Squandered? The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- THE RISE -- AND FALL… -- THE TRIAL -- A Free Reign for Milosevic -- MAPPING OUT GENOCIDE -- THE LONG AND VISIBLE HAND OF SERBIA -- A SELF-INFLICTED DEFEAT -- EXPORTING INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND THE TRIBUNAL'S COMPLETION STRATEGY -- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: AGAINST ALL ODDS -- SERBIA: JUDICIARY ON THE LEASH -- BETRAYING VICTIMS, FAILING JUSTICE -- NOTES -- 10 A Big Man in a Small Cell: Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- FROM WARLORD TO PRESIDENT: THE RISE OF CHARLES TAYLOR -- THE TAYLOR PRESIDENCY - THE TYRANNY CONTINUES -- THE SIERRA LEONE CONFLICT - A TAYLOR-MADE CATASTROPHE -- THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE -- THE LIBERIAN PEACE PROCESS AND THE UNSEALING OF TAYLOR'S INDICTMENT -- THE INDICTMENT -- THE OFFER OF A GRACEFUL EXIT -- GETTING TAYLOR TO THE COURT -- THE FINAL TWIST -- THE QUESTION OF VENUE -- REACTIONS TO TAYLOR'S ARREST AND DETENTION.

THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST TAYLOR -- Taylor on Trial at Last -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 11 Political Pedagogy, Baghdad Style: The Dujail Trial of Saddam Hussein -- SADDAM HUSSEIN'S RISE TO POWER -- HUSSEIN'S IRAQ: PATTERNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS -- THE PRELUDE TO PROSECUTIONS -- REGIME CHANGE AND THE CREATION OF THE TRIBUNAL -- ANATOMY OF THE TRIBUNAL AND ITS WORKINGS -- THE FACTS OF THE DUJAIL TRIAL -- TRIAL DYNAMICS: POLITICAL PEDAGOGY, BUT OF WHAT KIND? -- JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION -- REACTIONS TO TRIAL AND EXECUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 12 Conclusion -- INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE -- HUMAN RIGHTS VS. CORRUPTION TRIALS -- THE PROBLEMS WITH ORDINARY JUDICIAL PROCESSES IN EXTRAORDINARY CASES -- SHATTERED MYTHS -- THE RIGHT TIME FOR JUSTICE -- THE JUSTICE CASCADE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Appendix: List of Prosecutions of Heads of State or Government January 1990 to June 2008 -- Selected Bibliography -- BOOKA AND REPORTS -- JOURNAL ARTICLES -- CASES -- Index.