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

by Dezalay, Yves

• ISBN13: 9780226144269
• ISBN10: 0226144267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Yves Dezalay is a director at Maison des sciences l'homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Chronologies	ix
Terminology and Abbreviations	xiii
PART ONE Imperial and Professional Strategies within the Field of State Power
Introduction	3	(14)
Retooling Statesmen to Restructure the State: From Heritiers of European Legal Culture to the Technopols Made in the USA	17	(15)
The Internationalization of Palace Wars	32	(29)
PART TWO Hegemony Challenged: Making Friends, the Cold War Roots of a Reformist Strategy
The Archeology of the New Universals: The Cold War Construction of Human Rights and Its Later Avatars	61	(12)
The Chicago Boys as Outsiders: Constructing and Exporting Counterrevolution	73	(22)
Fostering Pluralism and Reformism	95	(15)
The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity	110	(17)
PART THREE Competing Universals: The Parallel Construction of Neoliberalism in the North and the South
The Reformist Establishment out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy	127	(14)
From Confrontation to Concertacion: The National Production and International Recognition of the New Universals	141	(22)
PART FOUR Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law
Fragmented Governance: A Washington Agenda for Reshaping Global Institutions and National Expertises	163	(23)
Top-Down Participatory Development: Putting a Human Face on Market Hegemony and Trying to Stem the Social Violence of Globalization	186	(12)
Lawyer Compradors as Opportunistic Institution Builders	198	(22)
Reformist Strategies around the Courts	220	(26)
The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants	246	(5)
Notes	251	(50)
References	301	(16)
Index	317