Collaboration in Authoritarian and Armed Conflict Settings

Juan Espindola is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was trained as a political theorist at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on violence, and transitional justice. He is the author of Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and his work has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Bioethics, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Theory and Research in Education, German Studies Review, Res Publica, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Social Philosophy, and others.Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. She has written extensively on right-wing movements, transitional justice, and human rights. She is author of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Duke University Press, 2008) and co-author of Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever (Cambridge University Press, 2020 with Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal-Bermúdez).

• 1: Coming to Terms with Collaboration: An Introduction,Juan Espindola and Leigh A. PaynePart I: The Politics of Collaboration2: Native Intelligence: African Detectives and Informers in White South Africa,Jacob Dlamini3: Be My Character: Framing the Female Collaborator in Postdictatorship Argentine Novels,Ksenija Bilbija4: Collaborationism in Low-Intensity Conflicts: The Case of the Basque Country,Luis de la CallePart II: Collaboration Moments5: Collaboration and Opportunism in Communist Czechoslovakia,Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá6: Black Collaboration During American Slavery,Andrea L. Dennis7: Third-Party Collaborators in the Colombian Armed Conflict: A Paramilitary Case Study,Gerson Iván Arias and Carlos Andrés Prieto8: Informing, Intelligence, and Public Policy in Northern Ireland: Some Overlooked Negative Consequences of Deploying Informers against Political Violence,Ron Dudai and Kevin HeartyPart III: Holding Collaborators Accountable9: The Collaboration of the Intellectuals: Legal Academia and the Third Reich,Oren Gross10: Grudge Informers and Beyond: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes,Colleen Murphy11: Business Collaborators on Trial: Legal Obstacles to Corporate Accountability in Argentina,Gabriel Pereira12: International Law and Collaboration: A Tentative Embrace,Shane Darcy13: Conclusion: Reckoning with Collaboration,Juan Espindola and Leigh A. PayneIndex