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The internationalization of palace wars : lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American states / Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth.
LIBRA F1418 .D49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dezalay, Yves, 1945-
- Series:
- Chicago series in law and society
- The Chicago series in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expertise--Political aspects.
- Expertise.
- Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.
- Latin America.
- International relations.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.
- Latin America--Politics and government--1948-1980.
- Politics and government.
- Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.
- Globalization.
- Latin America--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Expertise--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Law reform--Latin America.
- Law reform.
- Law and economic development.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 331 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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 more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, universities, and think tanks, Dezalay and Garth examine both the production of northern exports such as neoliberal economics and international human rights law and the ways they are received south of the United States. They find that the content of what is exported and how it fares are profoundly shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence -- "palace wars" -- in the nations involved.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Imperial and Professional Strategies within the Field of State Power
- 2. Retooling Statesmen to Restructure the State: From Heritiers of European Legal Culture to the Technopols Made in the USA 17
- 3. The Internationalization of Palace Wars 32
- Part 2 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 61
- 5. The Chicago Boys as Outsiders: Constructing and Exporting Counterrevolution 73
- 6. Fostering Pluralism and Reformism 95
- 7. The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity 110
- Part 3 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 127
- 9. From Confrontation to Concertacion: The National Production and International Recognition of the New Universals 141
- Part 4 Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law
- 10. Fragmented Governance: A Washington Agenda for Reshaping Global Institutions and National Expertises 163
- 11. Top-Down Participatory Development: Putting a Human Face on Market Hegemony and Trying to Stem the Social Violence of Globalization 186
- 12. Lawyer Compradors as Opportunistic Institution Builders 198
- 13. Reformist Strategies around the Courts 220
- 14. The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants 246.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 3001-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226144259
- 0226144267
- OCLC:
- 47797673
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