Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships

Liora Israël is a sociologist at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and assistant director of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris. Guillaume Mouralis is an historian and sociologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

• General Introduction.- “Épuration”: History of a Word.- Humanity Seized by International Criminal Justice.- Dealing with Collaboration in Belgium after the Second World War: From Activism to Collaboration and Incivism.-  Transitional Justice as Universal Narrative.- The Invention of “Transitional Justice” in the 1990s.- “Transitional Justice” and National “Mastering of the Past”: Criminal Justice and Liberalization Processes in West Germany after 1945.- Poor Little Belgium? Belgian Trials of German War Criminals, 1944-1951.- From Revolution to Restoration. Transnational Implications of the Greek Purge of Wartime Collaborators.- The Defense in the Dock: Professional Purges of French Lawyers after the Second World War.- Law and the Soviet Purge: Domestic Renewal and International Convergences.- Circulation of Models of épuration after the Second World War: from France to Italy.- Reassessing the Boundaries of Transitional Justice: An Inquiry of Political Transitions, Armed Conflicts and Human Rights Violations.- The Emergence of Transitional Justice as a Professional International Practice.- The Uncertain Place of Purge within Transitional Justice, and the Limitations of International Law in the World’s Response to Mass Atrocity.