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In contrast to arguments that the rule of law is breaking down under globalization, it is argued here that laws & structures associated with economic globalization constitute a rule of law regime in insulating certain key aspects of economic life from political pressure. Principal legal rules for the protection of foreign investment that is intended to freeze out politics are discussed. As an alternative to the neoliberal formulation of property rights & the rule of law, the positions of Weimar legal theorists on the rule of law, the generality requirement, & property rights are discussed. The current rule of law project in the investment regime would serve similar functions to the rule of law in the Weimar Republic. However, attempts to have the rule of law act as a resource of social movements, contesting the influence of dominant capitalists, may fail, as it did in the Weimar constitution. Thus, democratic forms are cautioned against embracing the rule of law at this time. M. Pflum

"This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin conditions help account for the legitimation of alien rulers in organizations of markedly different scale. The book applies these principles to the legitimation of alien rulers in states (the Republic of Genoa, nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, and modern Iraq), colonies (Taiwan and Korea under Japanese rule), and occupation regimes, as well as in less encompassing organizations such as universities (academic receivership), corporations (mergers and acquisitions), and stepfamilies. Finally, it speculates about the possibility of an international market in governance services"--

Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, Russia seems intent on re-writing the rules on media freedom, democracy & security on which a new, more cooperative relationship with the west was to be built. Moscow's crackdown on freedom of expression may make conflict more likely. Adapted from the source document.

"Stefano Bartolini argues that, despite the growth of a large theoretical literature about institutions and institutionalism over the last thirty years, the specific nature of political institutions has been relatively neglected. Political institutions have been subsumed into the broader problems of the emergence, persistence, change and functions of all types of institutions. The author defines political institutions strictly as norms and rules of 'conferral', to be distinguished from norms/rules of 'conduct' and of 'recognition'. They are those norms and rules that empower rulers, set limits to the capacity to ensure behavioural compliance, and define the proper means for achieving such compliance. This book draws logical and empirical consequences from this understanding, to distinguish different types of norms/rules, and to specify the peculiarities of those norms/rules that are 'political'. The book will appeal to researchers of political institutions in comparative politics, and in political science and political sociology more broadly."--