In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right,
nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries
they have wronged. We live in an age that seeks to establish
political truth, perhaps best exemplified by the creation of truth
commissions in societies seeking to emerge from dictatorial pasts.
The most noteworthy result of these efforts has been the
near-universal realization that a society will not be able
successfully to pass into the future until it somehow deals with
the horrors of its past.A number of Western states and institutions
have sought to come to terms with their relationships to
non-Western states and peoples. Powerful actors and institutions
are apologizing to the relatively powerless. What do these
apologies mean? Are they an indication of a new international
order, either politically or as they relate to international law?
Or are these apologies fleeting and insignificant? In "The Age of
Apology" twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars
explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious,
and anthropological aspects of Western apologies in an attempt to
answer these questions. Conversely, a nonapology might be as
important to study, and several chapters discuss the absence or
refusal of apology and how this might be interpreted.
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