Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney.
Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder
Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson
Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman
Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln
Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jonsson.
Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming
The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy
The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff
Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James
Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs.
Part III: International apologies of states. State apolgies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi
"Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens
Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa
Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo
Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr
Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl.
Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. Marrus
Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa.
Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner
The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.
Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder
Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson
Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman
Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln
Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jonsson.
Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming
The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy
The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff
Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James
Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs.
Part III: International apologies of states. State apolgies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi
"Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens
Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa
Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo
Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr
Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl.
Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. Marrus
Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa.
Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner
The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.