As a Serbian living in Belgrade when she first heard of the genocide committed under Slobodan Milosevic, Subotic (political science, Georgia State U.), found--when she went back to research this book--that tuning out the televised resultant war crimes trials was one way of dealing with the past in the former Yugoslavia. But international pressures resulted in implementing post-conflict transitional justice. While not faulting this mechanism's goals in case studies of Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia, despite being driven by political/economic agendas that can 'hijack' the process, she argues for broader educational reforms to promote strategies of normative and institutional justice. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)