What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession?
This paper proposes to see Croatia’s becoming a member state of the European Union in 2013 as a particular critical juncture that created uncertainty over the type of decisions the government would take in the field of transitional justice once international pressure had stopped. It compares the per...
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| author | Lina Strupinskienė Simona Vaškevičiūtė |
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| description | This paper proposes to see Croatia’s becoming a member state of the European Union in 2013 as a particular critical juncture that created uncertainty over the type of decisions the government would take in the field of transitional justice once international pressure had stopped. It compares the period before and after the accession by looking into the three elements of transitional justice policy that were given priority by the EU conditionality framework – fighting impunity for war crimes, fostering reconciliation and respect for and protection of minority rights. It finds that all three have deteriorated in the post-accession period. On the one hand, the findings illustrate the power of international pressure, but on the other hand, they question the overall effectiveness of the conditionality policy, as it seems to not have affected deeper societal issues at stake and has not resulted in true transformation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-864f2ab82fb148efb483f3daf9b7548b2022-12-22T00:33:34ZlitVilnius University PressPolitologija1392-16812424-60342021-06-01101110.15388/Polit.2021.101.1What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession?Lina Strupinskienė0Simona Vaškevičiūtė1Vilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, LithuaniaThis paper proposes to see Croatia’s becoming a member state of the European Union in 2013 as a particular critical juncture that created uncertainty over the type of decisions the government would take in the field of transitional justice once international pressure had stopped. It compares the period before and after the accession by looking into the three elements of transitional justice policy that were given priority by the EU conditionality framework – fighting impunity for war crimes, fostering reconciliation and respect for and protection of minority rights. It finds that all three have deteriorated in the post-accession period. On the one hand, the findings illustrate the power of international pressure, but on the other hand, they question the overall effectiveness of the conditionality policy, as it seems to not have affected deeper societal issues at stake and has not resulted in true transformation.https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/22723CroatiaTransitional JusticeHuman RightsEuropean Union |
| spellingShingle | Lina Strupinskienė Simona Vaškevičiūtė What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? Politologija Croatia Transitional Justice Human Rights European Union |
| title | What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? |
| title_full | What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? |
| title_fullStr | What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? |
| title_short | What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession? |
| title_sort | what happened to transitional justice in croatia after the eu accession |
| topic | Croatia Transitional Justice Human Rights European Union |
| url | https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/22723 |
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