1. Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ CREATING INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY 31
2. Navigating Without a Map: Human Rights Trials in Southern Europe 31
3. Argentina: From Pariah State to Global Protagonist 60
Part Ⅱ SPREADING IDEAS ABOUT INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY 87
Interlude: How and why does the Argentine experience spread? 87
4. The Streams of the Justice Cascade 96
Part Ⅲ DO HUMAN RIGHTS PROSECUTIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 129
5. The Effects of Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America 129
6. Global Deterrence and Human Rights Prosecutions 162
7. Is the United States Immune to the Justice Cascade? 189
Part Ⅳ CONCLUSIONS 225
8. Policy, Theory, and the Justice Cascade 225
Acknowledgments 263
Appendices 266
Notes 279
Bibliography 307
Index 323