The internationalization of palace wars: lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American states

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.