This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability...

This book explores the possible consequences of the events of 11 September 2001, and of the 'fight against terrorism', the way peace operations are perceived and conducted, and the way that states, international organizations such as NATO or the EU and non-state actors, consider these operations.
The 11 September attacks illustrate the widening of the security agenda, the persistence of instability and the need to deal with it in both a preventive and a curative way. The events have had a major impact on US foreign and defence policies, on security policies, on the hierarchy of...

A number of international contributors emphasise the conceptual and practical challenges facing post-conflict societies and the international community in the management of the transition from civil conflict to peaceful coexistence.

This book seeks to examine whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. The author concludes that most operations - whether in the Cold War or post-Cold War periods - were flawed for the following reasons: the failure of the UN member states to agree upon clear achievable objectives; the precise nature of the operations and provision of the necessary resources; and unrealistic post-1989 expectations that UN peacekeeping operations could be adapted to the changed international circumstances.