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The ICTY and Institutional Reform in Croatia

Ultimately, this chapter argues that the potential for institutional impact far outweighed the actual impact in Croatia. The politicization of the Gotovina case, especially when he was in hiding from the tribunal from 2001-2005, drained the resources of the state, damaged international relations, radicalized domestic politics, and hampered the implementation of the institutional changes which could have enabled a more systematic prosecution of the actual perpetrators rather than obsessing over the spectacle of Gotovina. The ICTY did affect Croatian institutions, but there are numerous examples of where the impact could have had an even greater potential, as Gotovina stated upon his release, to turn the country towards the future and bring the war to a close. The ongoing stagnation regarding the establishment of a regional truth and reconciliation commission (the RECOM initiative) reveals that the potential of the ICTY’s institutional impact is still hampered by both domestic politics and shifting relations between the various Yugoslav successor states.

Croatia, ICTY, institutional reform, war crimes, Gotovina

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