The internationalization of palace wars : lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American states / Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dezalay, Yves, 1945-

Contributor:

Garth, Bryant G.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

The Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Expertise--Political aspects--Latin America.

Expertise.

Law reform--Latin America.

Law reform.

Law and economic development.

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

United States.

Latin America--Politics and government--1948-1980.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.

Latin America--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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. For instance, challenges to the eastern intellectual establishment influenced the Reagan-era export of University of Chicago-style neoliberal economics to Chile, where it enjoyed a warm reception from Pinochet and his allies because they could use it to discredit the previous regime. Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronologies

Terminology and Abbreviations

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 3001-316) and index.

ISBN:

9786612537554

9780226144276

0226144275

9781282537552

1282537555

OCLC:

593295913