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