Plunder – When the Rule of Law is Illegal

Preface.
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1. Plunder and The Rule of Law.</p>
<p>An Anatomy of Plunder.</p>
<p>Plunder, Hegemony, and Positional Superiority.</p>
<p>Law, Plunder, and European Expansionism.</p>
<p>Institutionalizing Plunder: The Colonial Relationship and the Imperial Project.</p>
<p>A Story of Continuity: Constructing the Empire of Law (lessness).</p>
<p>2. Neo–liberalism: Economic Engine of Plunder.</p>
<p>The Argentinean Bonanza.</p>
<p>Neo–Liberalism: An Economic Theory of Simplification and a Spectacular Project.</p>
<p>Structural Adjustment Programs and the Comprehensive Development Framework.</p>
<p>Development Frameworks, Plunder, and the Rule of Law.</p>
<p>3. Before Neo–Liberalism: a Story of Western Plunder.</p>
<p>The European Roots of Colonial Plunder.</p>
<p>The Fundamental Structure of US Law as a Post–Colonial Reception.</p>
<p>A Theory of Lack, Yesterday and Today.</p>
<p>Before Neo–Liberalism: Colonial Practices and Harmonious Strategies Yesterday and Now.</p>
<p>4. Plunder of Ideas and the Providers of Legitimacy.</p>
<p>Hegemony and legal Consciousness.</p>
<p>Intellectual Property as Plunder of Ideas.</p>
<p>Providing Legitimacy: Law and Economics.</p>
<p>Providing Legitimacy: Lawyers and Anthropologists.</p>
<p>5. Constructing the Conditions for Plunder.</p>
<p>Plunder of Oil: Iraq and Elsewhere.</p>
<p>The New World Order of Plunder.</p>
<p>Not Only Iraq: Plunder, War, and Legal Ideologies of Intervention.</p>
<p>Institutional Lacks as Conditions for Plunder: Real or Created?.</p>
<p>Double Standards Policy and Plunder.</p>
<p>Poverty: Justification for Intervention and Consequence of Plunder.</p>
<p>6. International Imperial Law.</p>
<p>Reactive Institutions of Imperial Plunder.</p>
<p>U.S. Rule of Law: Forms of Global Domination.</p>
<p>The Globalization of the American Way.</p>
<p>An Ideological Institution of Global Governance: International Law.</p>
<p>Holocaust Litigation: Back to the Future.</p>
<p>The Swallowing of International Law by U.S. law.</p>
<p>Economic Power and the U.S. Courts as Imperial Agencies.</p>
<p>7. Hegemony and Plunder. The Demise of the Rule of Law in the United States.</p>
<p>Strategies to Subordinate the Rule of Law to Plunder.</p>
<p>Plunder in High Places: Enron and its Aftermath.</p>
<p>Plunder in Even Higher Places: Electoral Politics and Plunder.</p>
<p>Plunder of Liberty: The War on Terror.</p>
<p>Plunder Undisrupted: The Discourse of Patriotism.</p>
<p>8. Beyond an Illegal Rule of Law?.</p>
<p>Summing Up: Plunder and The Global Transformation of the Law.</p>
<p>Imperial Rule of Law or the People′s Rule of Law.</p>
<p>The Future of Plunder.</p>
<p>Notes to Text.</p>
<p>Selected Further Reading.</p>
<p>Documentary Film Resources.</p>
<p>Index</p>