Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability In
SETTLING ACCOUNTS EDITORS Sherry B. Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley PRINCETON STUDIES IN CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY SETTLING ACCOUNTS VIOLENCE, JUSTICE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN POSTSOCIALIST EUROPE JOHN BORNEMAN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright 1997 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Borneman, John, 1952– Settling accounts : violence, justice, and accountability in postsocialist Europe / John Borneman. p. cm. — (Princeton studies in culture/power/history) Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN 1-4008-0081-1 1. Post-communism—Europe, Eastern. 2. Rule of law—Europe, Eastern. 3. Reparation—Europe, Eastern. 4. Political crimes and offenses—Europe, Eastern. 5. Retribution. 6. Social justice—Europe, Eastern. 7. Europe, Eastern—Social policy. 8. Europe, Eastern—Politics and government—1989– I. Title. II. Series. HN380.7.A8B67 1997 306.2′0947—dc21 97-12041 CIP This book has been composed in Palatino http://pup.princeton.edu Contents Prefacevii Acknowledgmentsxiii PARTONE:FRAMING,COMPARING,HISTORICIZING1 Chapter 1 FramingtheRuleofLawinEast-CentralEurope3 AccountabilityandRetributiveJustice3 ComparisonofRegimeTransformations8 JusticeandPoliticalTheory10 TheStudyofLegalReformandAnthropology16 Violence,Accountability,Dignity20 Chapter 2 Comparing:Decommunization—Recommunization—Reform?26
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