The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American StatesHow 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. |
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Inhalt
Making Friends the Cold War Roots of a Reformist Strategy | 59 |
The Parallel Construction of Neoliberalism in the North and the South | 125 |
PART FOUR Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law | 161 |
Notes | 251 |
References | 301 |
Index | 317 |
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Seite 254 - It is composed of the men who have run Mexico for over half a century, who have laid the policy lines of the Revolution, and who today hold effective decision-making power.
Seite 295 - Rights and guarantees are not 'just there'; they must be exercised and defended against persistent authoritarian temptations, and for this the capabilities that society furnishes to its members are crucial. We should take into account that the law, in its content and in its application, is largely (like the state of which it is a part) a dynamic condensation of power relations, not just a rationalized technique for the ordering of social...
Seite 288 - Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what exactly? If not, what is it about the 'nature of India
Seite 174 - For governments to reduce their role in the economy and expand the play of market forces, the state itself must be strengthened.' Evans supports this thesis of a complementarity between state and market by quoting from such figures as Karl Polanyi, who in The Great Transformation wrote 'The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organised and controlled interventionism...
Seite 292 - They simply suggest that it involves more than completing a checklist of "sensible" policies. Much development thinking today is about where that checklist may be incomplete, and why it can be difficult to implement. So development economics, mark three, has rediscovered that institutions matter. The ideological proponents of free markets have tended to forget that, for markets to work well, an economy...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States Chicago Series in Law and Society |
| Autoren | Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth |
| Verlag | University of Chicago Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0226144275, 9780226144276 |
| Länge | 352 Seiten |
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