Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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: Constructing 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 Confrontatión to Concertacion: 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 Glo -- 12. Lawyer Compradors as Opportunistic Institution Builders -- 13. Reformist Strategies around the Courts -- 14. The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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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