Overview
- Important book from respected author
- Timely study of the effects of economic globalization
- Latest in wellregarded Palgrave Macmillan SocioLegal Studies series
- International relevance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Resisting Economic Globalization explores the magnitude of the legal constraints imposed by these rules and institutions associated with the worldwide spread of neoliberalism. Much contemporary theorizing has given up on national states as a locus for countering the harmful effects of economic globalization. Though states provide critical supports to the construction and ongoing maintenance of transnational legal constraints, David Schneiderman argues that states remain crucial sites for resisting, even rolling back, investment law disciplines. Structured as a series of encounters with selected critical theorists, the book contrasts theoretical diagnoses with recent episodes of resistance impeding investment law edicts.
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This novel approach tests contemporary hypotheses offered by leading political and legal theorists about the nature of power and the role of states and social movements in facilitating and undoing neoliberalism's legal edifices. As a consequence, the foundations of transnational legality become more apparent and the mechanisms for change more transparent.
Reviews
"Schneiderman's book offers, undoubtedly, a wellspring for further theoretical work on this 'exotic' area, inquiring into the opportunities for effective 'politics of resistance' after economic globalization and the importance of the 'local' in the global discourse." - Ricardo Campos, International Journal of Constitutional Law
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resisting Economic Globalization
Book Subtitle: Critical Theory and International Investment Law
Authors: David Schneiderman
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137004062
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00405-5Published: 15 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53594-8Published: 04 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00406-2Published: 15 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 218