ABSTRACT
The politics of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) features a number of phenomena that arguably have very clear parameters and straightforward ways of measuring change and progress. This chapter shows how the rubric of 'transitional justice' (TJ) constitutes a dizzying array of meanings and foci. It compares how different scholars have conceptualised the notion of TJ, particularly the range of empirical phenomena that authors have decided to encompass when they have dealt with truth and justice issues. The chapter explores how, depending on an author's empirical delineation of the phenomenon, the independent variables chosen across time or across countries have also varied. It presents a set of sub-themes in the field of post-communist TJ, namely the comparative study of institutions devoted to TJ, the growing importance of international influences on TJ, and the place of specifically post-conflict TJ in the context of former Yugoslavia.
