The justice cascade: how human rights prosecutions are changing world politics

Introduction

Part I. Creating individual accountability. Navigating without a map: human rights trials in southern Europe; Argentina: from pariah state to global protagonist

Part II. Spreading ideas about individual accountability. Interlude: how does the Argentine experience spread?; The streams of the justice cascade

Part III. Do human rights prosecutions make a difference? the effects of human rights prosecutions in Latin America; Global deterrence and human rights prosecutions; Is the UnitedStates immune to the justice cascade?

Part IV. Conclusions. Policy, theory, and the justice cascade.