The internationalization of palace wars : lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American states / Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.

Retooling statesmen to restructure the state: from Héritiers of European legal culture to the technopols made in the USA -- The internationalization of palace wars -- The archeology of the new universals: the Cold War construction of human rights and its later avatars -- The Chicago boys as outsiders: constructing and exporting counterrevolution -- Fostering pluralism and reformism -- The paradox of symbolic imperialism: the southern cone as an explosive laboratory of modernity -- The reformist establishment out of power: investing in human rights as an alternative political strategy -- From confrontation to concertación: the national production and international recognition of the new universals -- Fragmented governance: a Washington agenda for reshaping global institutions and national expertises -- Top-down participatory development: putting a human face on market hegemony and trying to stem the social violence of globalization -- Lawyer compradors as opportunistic institution builders -- Reformist strategies around the courts -- The logic of half-failed transplants.

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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 sout.

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