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Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

The Internationalization of Palace Wars

Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

352 pages,  6 x 9  © 2002
Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226144252   Published April 2002

Paper $28.00

ISBN: 9780226144269   Published April 2002

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 Héritiers
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: Constructinf 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 Concertación: 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 Instituation
Builders
13. Reformist Strategies around the Courts
14. The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants

Notes
References
Index
Subjects



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