Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships

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.