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Author : Juan Espíndola Mata,Juan Espindola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107083127
An investigation of denunciators for the East German secret police, the Ministry of State Security and the way they have been publicly unveiled.
Author : Juan Espindola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107443660
Author : A. James McAdams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521802083
In recent years, no modern democracy has taken more aggressive steps to come to terms with a legacy of dictatorship than has the Federal Republic of Germany with the crimes and injustices of Communist East Germany. In this book, A. James McAdams provides a comprehensive and engaging examination of the four most prominent instances of this policy: criminal trials for the killings at the Berlin Wall; the disqualification of administrative personnel for secret-police ties; parliamentary truth-telling commissions; and private property restitution. On the basis of extensive interviews in Bonn and Berlin over the 1990s, McAdams gives new insight into the difficulties German politicians, judges, bureaucrats, and public officials faced sitting in judgment on the affairs of another state. He argues provocatively that the success of their policies must be measured in terms of the way they used East German history to justify their actions. In 1997, A. James McAdams was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of East Germany and Détente (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification (Princeton University Press, 1992), and co-author of Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II (Westview Press, 1999). McAdams is also editor of Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
Author : Alexandra Barahona De Brito,Carmen Gonzalez Enriquez,Paloma Aguilar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529016
One of the most important political and ethical questions faced during a political transition from authoritarian or totalitarian to democratic rule is how to deal with legacies of repression. Indeed, some of the most fundamental questions regarding law, morality and politics are raised at such times, as societies look back to understand how they lost their moral and political compass, failing to contain violence and promote the values of tolerance and peace. The Politics of Memory sheds light on this important aspect of transitional politics, assessing how Portugal, Spain, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Germany after reunification, Russia, the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central America, as well as South Africa, have confronted legacies of repression. The book examines the presence - or absence - of three types of official efforts to come to terms with the past: truth commissions, trials and amnesties, and purges. In addition, it looks at unofficial initiatives emerging from within society, usually involving human rights organisations (HROs), churches or political parties. Where relevant, it also examines the 'politics of memory,' whereby societies re-work the past in an effort to come to terms with it, both during the transitions and long after official transitional policies have been implemented or forgotten. The book also assesses the significance of forms of reckoning with the past for a process of democratization or democratic deepening. It also focuses on the role of international actors in such processes, as external players are becoming increasingly influential in shaping national policy where human rights are concerned.
Author : Ruti G. Teitel,Baek Buhm-Suk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137534545
How will a unified Korea respond to the Kim regime's crimes against humanity? Will North and South Korea be able to reconcile their differences after being divided for so long? Will China, the US, Japan, Russia, and U.N. drive the process? This book examines the challenges associated with Korean unification and human rights accountability.
Author : Inga Markovits
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198259611
"The remarkable transformation of East German law following the collapse of the Communist regime and the dismantlement of the Berlin Wall in 1990 is related by an author uniquely qualified to understand what happened during this astonishing period. Inga Markovits was born in Germany but has spent 25 years teaching law at the University of Texas in Austin. It was upon returning to Berlin in November 1989, two weeks after the opening of the Wall, that she realized someone should try to record the events leading up to and following the death of Socialist law. Thus began this diary."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alexandra Barahona De Brito,Carmen Gonzalez Enriquez,Paloma Aguilar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199240906
One of the most important political and ethical questions faced during a political transition from authoritarian or totalitarian to democratic rule is how to deal with legacies of repression. Indeed, some of the most fundamental questions regarding law, morality and politics are raised at such times, as societies look back to understand how they lost their moral and political compass, failing to contain violence and promote the values of tolerance and peace. The Politics of Memorysheds light on this important aspect of transitional politics, assessing how Portugal, Spain, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Germany after reunification, Russia, the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central America, as well as South Africa, have confronted legacies of repression.The book examines the presence - or absence - of three types of official efforts to come to terms with the past: truth commissions, trials and amnesties, and purges. In addition, it looks at unofficial initiatives emerging from within society, usually involving human rights organisations (HROs), churches or political parties. Where relevant, it also examines the 'politics of memory,' whereby societies re-work the past in an effort to come to terms with it, both during the transitions and longafter official transitional policies have been implemented or forgotten. The book also assesses the significance of forms of reckoning with the past for a process of democratization or democratic deepening. It also focuses on the role of international actors in such processes, as external players arebecoming increasingly influential in shaping national policy where human rights are concerned.
Author : Magnus Brechtken,Wladyslaw Bulhak,Jürgen Zarusky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3835335618
Author : Stephen F. Szabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472596338
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Having emerged from the end of the Cold War as a unified country, Germany has quickly become the second largest exporter in the world. Its economic might has made it the center of the Eurozone and the pivotal power of Europe. Like other geo-economic powers, Germany's foreign policy is characterized by a definition of the national interest in economic terms and the elevation of economic interests over non-economic values such as human rights or democracy promotion. This strategic paradigm is evident in German's relationship with China, the Gulf States and Europe, but it is most important in regard to its evolving policies towards Russia. In this book, Stephen F. Szabo provides a description and analysis of German policy towards Russia, revealing how unified Germany is finding its global role in which its interests do not always coincide with the United States or its European partners. He explores the role of German business and finance in the shaping of foreign policy and investigates how Germany's Russia policy effects its broader foreign policy in the region and at how it is perceived by key outside players such as the United States, Poland and the EU. With reference to public, opinion, the media and think tanks Szabo reveals how Germans perceive Russians, and he uncovers the ways in which its dealings with Russia affect Germany in terms of the importing of corruption and crime. Drawing on interviews with key opinion-shapers, business and financial players and policy makers and on a wide variety of public opinion surveys, media reports and archival sources, his will be a key resource for all those wishing to understand the new geo-economic balance of Europe.
Author : Anja Mihr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108423069
Explores the effect of justice measures on 'regime consolidation' in a post-transition context.
Author : Marcos Zunino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108475259
A new perspective on the history of transitional justice and why the discourse prioritises particular responses to human rights violations.
Author : Mark A. Drumbl,Barbora Hol?
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192667243
Informers are generally reviled. After all, 'snitches get stitches.' Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While informers may themselves be victims enlisted by the state, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, are central to the proliferation of endemic human rights abuses. Yet, little is known about exactly why ordinary people end up informing on--at times betraying--other people to state authorities. Through a case-study of Communist Czechoslovakia (1945-1989) that draws from secret police archives, oral histories, and a broad gamut of secondary sources, this book unearths what fuels informers to speak to the secret police in repressive times and considers how transitional justice should approach informers once repression ends. This book unravels the complex drivers behind informing and the dynamics of societal reactions to informing. It explores the agency of both informers and secret police officers. By presenting informers up close, and the relationships between informers and secret police officers in high resolution, this book centres the role of emotions in informer motivations and underscores the value of dignity and reconciliation in transitional reconstruction. This book also leverages research from informing in repressive states to better understand informing in so-called liberal democratic states, which, after all, also rely on informers to maintain law and preserve order.
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521548543
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Author : A. James McAdams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521001390
This 2001 book examines how government of unified Germany has dealt with former government of Communist East Germany.
Author : Lucien Huyse,Mark Salter
Publisher : International IDEA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Burundi
ISBN : 9185724289
This book presents the findings of a major comparative study examining the role played by traditional justice mechanisms in dealing with the legacy of violent conflict in Africa. It focuses on case studies of five countries -- Rwanda, Mozambique, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Burundi - that are used as the basis for outlining conclusions and options for future policy development in the related areas of post-conflict reconstruction, democracy building and development. "Traditional Justice & Reconciliation After Violent Conflict" suggests that in some circumstances traditional mechanisms can effectively complement conventional judicial systems and represent a real potential for promoting justice, reconciliation and a culture of democracy. At the same time it cautions against unrealistic expectations of traditional structures and offers a sober, evidence-based assessment of both the strengths and the weaknesses of traditional conflict management mechanisms within the broader framework of post-conflict social reconstruction efforts. The book is intended to serve both as a general knowledge resource and as a practitioner's guide for national bodies seeking to employ traditional justice mechanisms, as well as external agencies aiming to support such processes.