University Press of America
Pages: 376
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978-0-7618-3647-6 • Paperback • June 2007 • $66.99 • (£52.00)
Lajco Klajn was born in Subotica (Vojvodina) in 1925. He survived WWII as a partisan, while almost his entire extended family perished in the concentration camps. He completed law school, was elected judge in the Vojvodina Constitutional Court, and since 1987 served as professor of law at the University of Novi Sad and member of the Yugoslav Federal Ministry of Justice committee that studied war crimes. In the capacity of legal expert, Dr. Klajn led major legal proceedings. He presented and published more than one hundred scientific reports in addition to biographical data, books, textbooks, and memoirs.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 PART I: The Three Yugoslavias, 1981, 1943, and 1989
Chapter 3 The Role of the Vatican
Chapter 4 The First Yugoslavia, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918
Chapter 5 The Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
Chapter 6 Seeds of a Second World War
Chapter 7 Croatian Resistance to the January 6th Dictatorship
Chapter 8 The Banovina of Croatia
Chapter 9 Preparations for World War II
Chapter 10 The March 27, 1941, Coup d'État
Chapter 11 The German Attacks
Chapter 12 The Second Yugoslavia, 1943, and the Role of the Yugoslav Antifascist Movement (AVNOJ)
Chapter 13 The Question of State Division
Chapter 14 The Sealed Fate of the Second Yugoslavia
Chapter 15 Presidency of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia -the Anti-Fascist Movement (AVNOJ) and the Constitution 1974
Chapter 16 Who Contributed to the Collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
Chapter 17 Decree of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Chapter 18 Secession from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Chapter 19 An Unresolved Yugoslav Crisis
Chapter 20 The Agreement between Milo?evic and Tudman in Moscow
Chapter 21 Disunion of Yugoslavia
Chapter 22 German recognition independent Croatia and Slovenia
Part 23 PART II: Yugoslavia 1941-1945
Chapter 24 The Spread of Nazi-Fascism in German Occupied Territories
Chapter 25 War Crimes in Yugoslavia-World War II
26 The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (The Nuremberg Process)
Part 27 PART III: Yugoslavia, 1989-1995
Chapter 28 Overview
Chapter 29 The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
Chapter 30 Proceedings Before The Hague Tribunal
Chapter 31 The Trial of Slobodan Milo?evic
Chapter 32 Other Serbs Responsible for Superior Command and Control
Chapter 33 Military Command responsibility
Chapter 34 Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Serbian Crisis Staff and Military
Chapter 35 Crimes in the Autonomous Region of Serb Krajina
Chapter 36 Croatian Serbs Accused in War Crimes
Chapter 37 War Crimes Committed by Croats
Chapter 38 Indictments for War Crimes Committed by Muslims
Chapter 39 Macedonian Leader Indicted for Crimes Against Albanians
Part 40 PART IV: The Aftermath
Chapter 41 Third Yugoslavia-Can it Last?
Chapter 42 The Court of Public Opinion: A Rush to Forget
Chapter 43 Partnership of the International Tribunal and the National Courts
Chapter 44 Courts under Suspicion
Chapter 45 Political Will or Court Function
Chapter 46 Stepping Over the Line
Chapter 47 International Law and the International Criminal Court
Part 48 Afterword
Part 49 Bibliography
Part 50 References