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

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How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II. Based on mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dezalay, Yves (Autor), Garth, Bryant G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Colección:Chicago Series in Law and Society
Temas:
Expertise > Political aspects > Latin America.
Globalization.
Law and economic development.
Law reform > Latin America.
LAW / General.
latin america, globalization, exports, brazil, argentina, chile, mexico, economy, national identity, government, human rights law, neoliberalism, politics, reagan, pinochet, regime change, propaganda, economic policy, foreign relations, history, nonfiction, violence, military, state power, hegemony, cold war, chicago boys, pluralism, reform, constructing, imperialism, empire, revolution, counterrevolution, courts, modernity, concertacion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronologies
  • Terminology and Abbreviations
  • PART ONE. Imperial and Professional Strategies within the Field of State Power
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Retooling Statesmen to Restructure the State: From Heritiers of European Legal Culture to the Technopols Made in the USA
  • 3. The Internationalization of Palace Wars
  • PART TWO. Hegemony Challenged: Making Friends, the Cold War Roots of a Reformist Strategy
  • 4. The Archeology of the New Universals: The Cold War Construction of Human Rights and Its Later Avatars
  • 5. The Chicago Boys as Outsiders: Constructing and Exporting Counterrevolution
  • 6. Fostering Pluralism and Reformism
  • 7. The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity
  • PART THREE. Competing Universals: The Parallel Construction of Neoliberalism in the North and the South
  • 8. The Reformist Establishment out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy
  • 9. From Confrontation to Concertacion: The National Production and International Recognition of the New Universals
  • PART FOUR. Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law
  • 10. Fragmented Governance: A Washington Agenda for Reshaping Global Institutions and National Expertises
  • 11. Top-Down Participatory Development: Putting a Human Face on Market Hegemony and Trying to Stem the Social Violence of Globalization
  • 12. Lawyer Compradors as Opportunistic Institution Builders
  • 13. Reformist Strategies around the Courts
  • 14. The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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