The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American StatesUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M02 15 - 352 pages 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. |
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Page vii
... countries we studied have also been extremely useful , especially two from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin : Joe Thome , who shared his insights about human rights lawyers and court reform in Chile , and David Trubek , who provided key ...
... countries we studied have also been extremely useful , especially two from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin : Joe Thome , who shared his insights about human rights lawyers and court reform in Chile , and David Trubek , who provided key ...
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... countries under study . Finally , two readers of an earlier version of the entire manuscript , Pierre Bourdieu and executive editor John Tryneski , at the University of Chicago Press , deserve special thanks for their gentle ...
... countries under study . Finally , two readers of an earlier version of the entire manuscript , Pierre Bourdieu and executive editor John Tryneski , at the University of Chicago Press , deserve special thanks for their gentle ...
Page ix
... countries and numerous organizations in the writing of this book . It may be helpful to some readers , therefore , to have a list of some of the important events that provide the setting for the discussions in the text . These ...
... countries and numerous organizations in the writing of this book . It may be helpful to some readers , therefore , to have a list of some of the important events that provide the setting for the discussions in the text . These ...
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... countries have similarly been labeled comprador : a term that was developed in Asia to refer to locals who could serve as brokers or agents for foreigners seeking to conduct busi- ness in their location ; we use the term only when ...
... countries have similarly been labeled comprador : a term that was developed in Asia to refer to locals who could serve as brokers or agents for foreigners seeking to conduct busi- ness in their location ; we use the term only when ...
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... country's currency exactly to the U.S. dollar , exemplified by Argentina , we use this term also to refer to the way that ideas and expertise can also be valued abroad according to what they can buy in the United States FIEL : Fundación ...
... country's currency exactly to the U.S. dollar , exemplified by Argentina , we use this term also to refer to the way that ideas and expertise can also be valued abroad according to what they can buy in the United States FIEL : Fundación ...
Contents
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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