Borneman theorizes modes of accountability, the meaning of "regime changeand the American occupation of Iraq, and the mechanisms of democratic authority in Europe and North America.

Preface: Political Crime and the Memory of Loss
I. Accountability
1. Modes of Accountability: Events of Closure, Rites of Repetition
2. On Money and the Memory of Loss
3. Public Apologies, Dignity, and Performative Redress
4. Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing: Listening, Retribution, and Affiliation
5. The State of War Crimes following the Israeli-Hezbollah War
6. Terror, Compassion, and the Limits of Identification: Counter-Transference and Rites of Commemoration in Lebanon
II. Regime Change, Occupation, Democratization
7. Responsibility after Military Intervention: What is Regime Change? What is Occupation?
8. Does the United States want Democratization in Iraq? Anthropological Reflections on the Export of Political Form
9. The External Ascription of Defeat and Collective Punishment
III. An Anthropology of Democratic Authority
10. What do Election Rituals Mean? Representation, Sacrifice, and Cynical Reason
11. Politics without a Head: Is the Love Parade a New Form of Political Identification? (with Stefan Senders)
12. Is the United States Europe's Other? On the Relations of Americans, Europeans, Jews, Arabs, Muslims
Notes
References

John Borneman is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation and Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo.