Plunder: when the rule of law is illegal
Грабёж: когда верховенство права является незаконным
2008-12-01
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Preface. Introduction. 1. Plunder and The Rule of Law . An Anatomy of Plunder. Plunder, Hegemony, and Positional Superiority. Law, Plunder, and European Expansionism. Institutionalizing Plunder: The Colonial Relationship and the Imperial Project. A Story of Continuity: Constructing the Empire of Law (lessness). 2. Neo-liberalism: Economic Engine of Plunder. The Argentinean Bonanza. Neo-Liberalism: An Economic Theory of Simplification and a Spectacular Project. Structural Adjustment Programs and the Comprehensive Development Framework. Development Frameworks, Plunder, and the Rule of Law. 3. Before Neo-Liberalism: a Story of Western Plunder . The European Roots of Colonial Plunder. The Fundamental Structure of US Law as a Post-Colonial Reception. A Theory of Lack, Yesterday and Today. Before Neo-Liberalism: Colonial Practices and Harmonious Strategies-Yesterday and Now. 4. Plunder of Ideas and the Providers of Legitimacy . Hegemony and legal Consciousness. Intellectual Property as Plunder of Ideas. Providing Legitimacy: Law and Economics. Providing Legitimacy: Lawyers and Anthropologists. 5. Constructing the Conditions for Plunder . Plunder of Oil: Iraq and Elsewhere. The New World Order of Plunder. Not Only Iraq: Plunder, War, and Legal Ideologies of Intervention. Institutional Lacks as Conditions for Plunder: Real or Created?. Double Standards Policy and Plunder. Poverty: Justification for Intervention and Consequence of Plunder. 6. International Imperial Law . Reactive Institutions of Imperial Plunder. U.S. Rule of Law: Forms of Global Domination. The Globalization of the American Way. An Ideological Institution of Global Governance: International Law. Holocaust Litigation: Back to the Future. The Swallowing of International Law by U.S. law. Economic Power and the U.S. Courts as Imperial Agencies. 7. Hegemony and Plunder. The Demise of the Rule of Law in the United States . Strategies to Subordinate the Rule of Law to Plunder. Plunder in High Places: Enron and its Aftermath. Plunder in Even Higher Places: Electoral Politics and Plunder. Plunder of Liberty: The War on Terror. Plunder Undisrupted: The Discourse of Patriotism. 8. Beyond an Illegal Rule of Law?. Summing Up: Plunder and The Global Transformation of the Law. Imperial Rule of Law or the People's Rule of Law. The Future of Plunder. Notes to Text. Selected Further Reading. Documentary Film Resources. Index
Key Findings
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European expansionism and colonial institutions are presented as foundational structures that institutionalized plunder and continued through imperial legal frameworks.
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International law, U.S. courts, interventionist policies, and global governance institutions are examined as mechanisms through which imperial power and double standards are reproduced.
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Law and economics, intellectual property regimes, lawyers, and anthropologists are portrayed as providers of ideological and professional legitimacy for exploitative practices.
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Neoliberal economic policies, including structural adjustment and development programs, are analyzed as contemporary mechanisms that enable and legitimize plunder.
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The work argues that legal systems can become instruments of illegal plunder when the rule of law is subordinated to hegemonic and positional power.
Research Object
plunder as a legal, political, economic, and institutional phenomenon
Research Subject
the ways in which the rule of law is subordinated to and legitimizes plunder through colonialism, neoliberalism, imperial intervention, and global governance
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