ABSTRACT
The Treaty on European Union states in Article 3. 5 that the EU will promote the principles of peace, security, the protection of human rights, and the strict observance and the development of international law, as well as other values, in its relations with the wider world: peace and justice in shorthand. Scholars have considered the explicit inclusion of principles in foreign policy in depth. Arnold Wolfers developed the notion of 'milieu goals', where states aim to shape the environment beyond their borders rather than acquire or defend possessions, and which resonated with EU scholars. Transitional justice has emerged as a set of tools through which societies may address the legacy of systematic and widespread human rights abuse in the aftermath of violent conflict or authoritarian rule. Paige Arthur traces the emergence of the concept of transitional justice to the late 1980s and early 1990s in response to the transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in Latin America.
