The Tribunal at the Hague and Political Conditionality
The Tribunal at the Hague and Political Conditionality

Summary/Abstract: The character of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has changed three times so far. In the first phase of its existence, after it was established in February 1993, the Tribunal served as a means of making amends. The big powers felt they were responsible for failing to act in time and prevent war crimes committed in Croatia in 1991 and in Bosnia in 1992. All war crimes committed during this period were subjected to strong condemnation by the international public, which also expressed outrage over the failure by the big powers to prevent them, although they had had the military capacity to do so.

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