Internationalization of Palace Wars or Restructuring Korea INC

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

Author: Yves Dezalay

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.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Chronologies
	Terminology and Abbreviations
Pt. 1	Imperial and Professional Strategies within the Field of State Power
1	Introduction	3
2	Retooling Statesmen to Restructure the State: From Heritiers of European Legal Culture to the Technopols Made in the USA	17
3	The Internationalization of Palace Wars	32
Pt. 2	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	61
5	The Chicago Boys as Outsiders: Constructing and Exporting Counterrevolution	73
6	Fostering Pluralism and Reformism	95
7	The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity	110
Pt. 3	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	127
9	From Confrontation to Concertacion: The National Production and International Recognition of the New Universals	141
Pt. 4	Reshaping Global Institutions and Exporting Law
10	Fragmented Governance: A Washington Agenda for Reshaping Global Institutions and National Expertises	163
11	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
13	Reformist Strategies around the Courts	220
14	The Logic of Half-Failed Transplants	246
	Notes	251
	References	301
	Index	317

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Restructuring 'Korea INC.': Financial Crisis, Corporate Reform, and Institutional Transition, Vol. 42

Author: Jang Sup Shin

The 1997 South Korean financial crisis not only shook the country itself but also sent shock waves through the financial world at large. This impressive book critically assesses the conventional wisdom surrounding the Korean crisis and the performance of the IMF-sponsored reform programme.
Looking first at the strengths and weaknesses of 'Korea Inc.' in comparison with other East Asian countries, the authors describe the challenges faced by Korea in the 1990s due to the acceleration of globalization. By arguing that the transition attempted by Korea was badly conceived and ill designed, Restructuring 'Korea Inc.' focuses on corporate reform after the crisis that has led to the running up of huge 'transition costs'.
This snappy, informative and readable book has a broad historical overview and with its suggestions for structural change for Korea. This book is an important contribution not only to Asian studies, but also to the study of financial crises and the political economy of economicreform.