The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest To Transform Latin American States (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

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.

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.

Bryant G. Garth is the director of the American Bar Foundation. Together they wrote Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order, published by the University of Chicago Press, and coedited Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy.

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