| Plunder: When the Rule of Law Is Illegal Contributor(s): Mattei, Ugo (Author), Nader, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1405178957 ISBN-13: 9781405178952 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. * Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side * Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones - in the service of Western cultural and economic domination * Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States * Dares to ask the paradoxical question - is the Rule of Law itself illegal? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence - Law | International - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| LCCN: 2007026293 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.28" W x 9.32" (1.36 lbs) 296 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones.
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