Internationalization of Palace Wars Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

Name: Internationalization of Palace Wars Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States
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ISBN: 9780226144269

ISBN-10: 0226144267

ISBN-13: 9780226144269

Edition: 2001

Authors: Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth

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The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world. It shows how the content of exported ideals is shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034



Acknowledgments


Chronologies


Terminology and Abbreviations



Imperial and Professional Strategies within the Field of State Power



Introduction



Retooling Statesmen to Restructure the State: From Heritiers of European Legal Culture to the Technopols Made in the USA



The Internationalization of Palace Wars



Hegemony Challenged: Making Friends, the Cold War Roots of a Reformist Strategy



The Archeology of the New Universals: The Cold War Construction of Human Rights and Its Later Avatars



The Chicago Boys as Outsiders: Constructing and Exporting Counterrevolution



Fostering Pluralism and Reformism



The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity



Competing Universals: The Parallel Construction of Neoliberalism in the North and the South



The Reformist Establishment out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy



From Confrontation to Concertacion: The National Production and International Recognition of the New Universals



Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law



Fragmented Governance: A Washington Agenda for Reshaping Global Institutions and National Expertises



Top-Down Participatory Development: Putting a Human Face on Market Hegemony and Trying to Stem the Social Violence of Globalization



Lawyer Compradors as Opportunistic Institution Builders



Reformist Strategies around the Courts



The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants


Notes


References


Index