Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lara J. Nettelfield is a Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to joining Royal Holloway, she taught at the University of Exeter and Columbia University in New York City. She has published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice and the Canadian International Council's International Journal. She has worked for the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in addition to nongovernmental organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nettelfield's writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun. Her research has been funded by Fulbright Hays, the German Marshall Fund, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and Columbia University's Harriman Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley. Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina won the 2011 Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

• 1. Assessing the impact: Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY); 2. Crafting the polity: transitional justice and democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3. An unfavorable context: war, Dayton, and the ICTY; 4. Expanding the norm of accountability: Srebrenica's survivors, collective action, and the ICTY; 5. Making progress with few resources: civil society and the ICTY; 6. Narrative and counter-narrative: the case of the Čelebići trial; 7. From the battlefield to the barracks: the ICTY and the Bosnian armed forces (AFBIH); 8. Localizing war crimes prosecutions: the Hague to Sarajevo and beyond; 9. Conclusion.

Reviews of the hardback: 'This book is essential reading for anyone interested in war crimes tribunals and their place in transitional justice. Nettelfield's wide and thorough research in the literature and on the ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina make this work stand out in a field already heavily populated. It represents a well balanced and realistic assessment of the record of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.' Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda